Location tendencies of the international automotive industry: 'footless companies going east and south' or 'regionalisation of value chain profiles'?

Pries, Ludger; Dehnen, Veronika

doi:10.1504/ijatm.2009.028527

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“…Although in-depth analyses suggest that the dynamics of location decisions within the automotive sector are quite complex and cannot be simply described as 'from the north and west towards the south and east', 36 and later: 'from the east towards further to the east', since several recent examples of location decisions point to the opposite sense (PRIES-DEHNEN, 2009), these general structural shifts in the geographical division of labor are likely to continue. Furthermore, even some North African countries could challenge CEE's assembly position in the near future (DOMANSKI-LUNG, 2009).…”

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The Hungarian Automotive Sector: A Comparative CEE Perspective with Special Emphasis on Structural Change

Szalavetz

2012

Clusters in Automotive and Information &Amp; Communication Technology

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Based on the example of the automotive sector the paper investigates some quantity and quality aspects of FDI-driven upgrading and analyzes in a comparative perspective -with the help of industry level data -selected aspects of competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe. The first group of the surveyed quality indicators includes the evolution of value added over output, and changes in the product mix: we examine whether these two indicators are suitable proxies to assess the extent of quality upgrading with. We conclude that the second group of our surveyed indicators: the import intensity of local production; labor productivity; and the skill content of local activities are more relevant to evaluate qualitytype upgrading. Since the broadening of local business functions is a good proxy for quality upgrading, we also tackle this issue in our regional comparisons. The countries covered are Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and in some cases also Romania, Bulgaria and Slovenia. Analyzing selected aspects of upgrading, we compare CEE data with the ones of a benchmark country: Germany. We conclude that in spite of several subsequent foreign direct investment deals, which has produced non-negligible expansion and structural upgrading, and irrespective of the fact that local actors have all stepped on the path of slow quality upgrading, CEE automotive actors have been stuck in cost-based competition. The Czech Republic is a partial exception in this respect. We develop predictions about the industry's regional perspectives following the global financial crisis.

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The Hungarian Automotive Sector: A Comparative CEE Perspective with Special Emphasis on Structural Change

Szalavetz

2012

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Restructuring and internationalization of the European automotive industry

Pavlínek

2019

Journal of Economic Geography

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Work and Employment Relations in a Globalized World: The Emerging Texture of Transnational Labour Regulation

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Seeliger

2013

GLJ

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While globalization has led to what can -with reference to Karl Polanyi -be referred to as a disembedding of the labour market from its nationally segmented settings, recent decades bring about a development identifiable as a 'countermovement'. As the text shows, drawing on the example of European Works Councils and International Framework Agreements, this process of 're-embedding' takes place through a network of different measures of labour regulation. It is for this reason that establishing a relational perspective on cross-border phenomena in the field of labour relations can count as a central future aim in this strand of research.

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Location tendencies of the international automotive industry: 'footless companies going east and south' or 'regionalisation of value chain profiles'?

Cited by 3 publications

References 20 publications

The Hungarian Automotive Sector: A Comparative CEE Perspective with Special Emphasis on Structural Change

The Hungarian Automotive Sector: A Comparative CEE Perspective with Special Emphasis on Structural Change

Restructuring and internationalization of the European automotive industry

Work and Employment Relations in a Globalized World: The Emerging Texture of Transnational Labour Regulation

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