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标题：The Last Automotive Entrepreneur? Lee Iacocca Saves Chrysler, 1978–1986
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作者：Dimitry Anastakis
期刊名称：Business and Economic History On-Line
印刷版ISSN：1941-7349
出版年度：2007
卷号：5
出版社：Business History Conference
摘要：In this paper, I situate Lee Iacocca's role in the Chrysler bailout within a broader automotive entrepreneurial community, and attempt to understand how his actions in helping Chrysler stave off bankruptcy in the 1979-1981 period contributed to reshaping not only the automotive industry, but business-government relations and the very nature of "brink management" in post-industrial America. I also address the question: Did Iacocca fundamentally change how automotive management operated in Detroit, or will his actions in saving Chrysler remain an isolated, unique case within auto business history. I argue that one cannot understand Iacocca without understanding the changing pre-1980 milieu and its impact on the wider automotive industry and economy of the post-1980, post-Chrysler bailout period. Iacocca and the Chrysler situation were unique, yet they remain essential to any understanding of the direction of the U.S. auto industry, and, more broadly, of the end of American industrial hegemony.