Europe's Auto Industry

Global Production Networks and Spatial Change

Petr Pavlínek (University of Nebraska, Omaha and Charles University, Prague)

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English

Cambridge University Press
23 January 2025

Economic growth; Development economics; International business; Manufacturing industries

Series: Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains

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.

By: Petr Pavlínek (University of Nebraska Omaha and Charles University Prague)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 548g
ISBN: 9781009453233
ISBN 10: 1009453238
Series: Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 23 January 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).

Reviews for Europe's Auto Industry: Global Production Networks and Spatial Change

'Taking a global production networks approach, Professor Pavlínek - the world's leading expert in the European automotive industry - has produced a definitive account of its dynamics of change and transformation in the context of regional restructuring. A must-read for all scholars and policy makers in regional development and the global automotive industry.' Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Distinguished Professor, National University of Singapore 'A highly accurate, well-documented book on the automotive industry in Europe by one of its leading experts, which goes beyond the example of the car industry to show how the large capitalist corporations have structured the geography of the world. A must read if you want to understand the challenges of industrial reconquest in high wage countries and how the world economy has been structured in recent years.' Vincent Frigant, Professor of Economics, University of Bordeaux 'For students and researchers, this book will remain a core work on the international division of labor in the European automotive industry for a long time to come. A must for all those interested in core-periphery dynamics in the industry.' Martin Krzywdzinski, WZB Berlin Social Science Center