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Dependent Growth: Foreign Investment and the Development of the Automotive Industry in East-Central Europe

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Authors:
  1. Petr Pavlínek

    1. Department of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, USA

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  • Provides an important example of the role of foreign direct investment in economic development
  • Analyzes the automotive industry of East-Central Europe within the context of the global industry
  • Author Petr Pavlinek draws on his own empirical research and ties his work in with broader conceptual themes
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Foreign Direct Investment and the Development of the Automotive Industry

    • Petr Pavlínek
    Pages 1-46

  3. The Impact of the 2008–2009 Crisis

    • Petr Pavlínek
    Pages 47-73

  4. Upgrading

    • Petr Pavlínek
    Pages 75-105

  5. Research and Development

    • Petr Pavlínek
    Pages 107-147

  6. Linkages and Spillovers

    • Petr Pavlínek
    Pages 149-183

  7. The State and the Development of the Automotive Industry

    • Petr Pavlínek
    Pages 185-218

  8. Conclusion

    • Petr Pavlínek
    Pages 219-223

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 225-230
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About this book

This book offers a critical analysis of recent developments in the automotive industry of East-Central Europe (ECE). Economists, industry specialists and national governments have considered the rapid development of the automotive industry in ECE in the past twenty years an unqualified success. This rapid growth has been based on large inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) from Western Europe, North America, Japan and South Korea, and it significantly contributed to GDP growth, created thousands of new jobs, and completely transformed the previously existing automotive industry in the region.
 
This volume offers an analysis that goes beyond uncritical celebratory accounts of this rapid growth. It is based on original, detailed firm-level research conducted by the author in Czechia and Slovakia between 2009 and 2015 that covered assembly firms and the networks of component suppliers. Theoretically and conceptually, the analysis will draw on the globalproduction networks and global value chains perspectives. Drawing on the original empirical data and on additional available information, this volume concentrates on several important questions related to the development of the automotive industry in ECE in the 2000s:
• The role of FDI in the rapid development of the automotive industry after 1990 and particularly in the 2000s.
• The upgrading of the automotive industry in East-Central Europe through FDI
• The position of ECE in the automotive industry research and development (R&D)
• The effects of the 2008-2009 economic crisis in the automotive industry of ECE.
• The role of state in the rapid development of the automotive industry in ECE in the 1990s and 2000s.
• The effects of FDI on domestic firms in the form of linkages between foreign-owned and domestic firms and spillovers from foreign-owned to domestic firms.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, USA

    Petr Pavlínek

About the author

Petr Pavlinek is a Professor of Geography at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. The Automotive Industry of East-Central Europe is his fourth book.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dependent Growth: Foreign Investment and the Development of the Automotive Industry in East-Central Europe

  • Authors: Petr Pavlínek

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53955-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53954-6Published: 18 April 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85284-3Published: 08 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53955-3Published: 07 April 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 230

  • Number of Illustrations: 101 b/w illustrations, 182 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Automotive Industry, Historical Geography, Trade, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Economic History

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