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Drawing on the analytical approaches of global production networks, global value chains, and spatial divisions of labor, this book investigates the changing automotive industry in Europe. Petr Pavlínek is a leading scholar of the automotive industry and here he focuses on its restructuring and geographic reorganization since the early 1990s to analyze the driving forces and regional development effects of these changes. Pavlínek explains the spatial profit-seeking strategies of large automotive firms and their role in the restructuring and increasing internationalization of Europe's automotive industry through foreign direct investment. He also considers how rapid growth in eastern Europe has affected western Europe, evaluates the relative position of countries in the European automotive industry, and examines the transition to the production of electric vehicles in eastern Europe. Europe's Auto Industry features original data along with concepts and methods that may be applied in economic geography, economics, industrial sociology and development studies. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
List of contents
1. Foreign direct investment and economic development in less developed countries; 2. Revisiting foreign direct investment in peripheral regions; 3. Foreign direct investment and supplier linkages in integrated peripheries; 4. Restructuring and internationalization of the European automotive industry; 5. The core-periphery structure of the European automotive industry; 6. Value creation and capture in the automotive industry; 7. Transition toward the production of electric vehicles in eastern Europe; 8. Conclusion; References.
About the author
Petr Pavlínek is a Professor of Geography at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and Charles University. His previous books include Economic Restructuring and Local Environmental Management in the Czech Republic (1997), Environmental Transitions: Transformation and Ecological Defence in Central and Eastern Europe (with John Pickles) (2000), A Successful Transformation? Restructuring of the Czech Automobile Industry (2008), and Dependent Growth: Foreign Investment and the Development of the Automotive Industry in East-Central Europe (2017).
Summary
A theoretical and critical explanation of the spatial profit-seeking strategies of transnational corporations and their role in the development of the automotive industry in Central and Eastern Europe. This book will appeal to readers interested in Europe's automotive industry, which is analyzed as an interconnected spatial network.
Foreword
Draws on the global production networks and global value chains perspectives to analyze Europe's automotive industry.
