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The book is about the rise of Iran Auto: one of the world's largest automobile industries that few people know anything about.
List of contents
Introduction; 1. Setting the stage: the pre-revolution rise and the post-revolution decline of the automobile industry; 2. The rise of the industrial nationalists: postwar conflict, neoliberalism, and national industrial strategy; 3. An era of coherence: state-led development and the deepening of automobile industry ties to society; 4. Using global corporate networks as a path to national industrial development; 5. From industrial protection to the rise of the stakeholder model of corporate ownership; 6. Factors determining Iran Auto's survival: industry fragility, the quality issue, and the conflict over globalization; Conclusion.
About the author
Darius Mehri holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Before becoming a sociologist, he worked as an automobile engineer in the United States and Japan. His publications have appeared in the Socio-Economic Review, Studies in Comparative International Development, and the Academy of Management Review. His book on the Toyota production system entitled Notes from Toyota-land: An American Engineer in Japan was published in 2005. He currently works as a Risk Management Analyst at the New York City Department of Buildings.
Summary
Since the revolution of 1979, scholars have portrayed the Islamic State's industrial development capacity in a negative light. This book shows how Iran was able to overcome this negative portrayal by constructing local and global networks to create the capacity to build an industry with high local manufacturing content.
