Overview
- Offer a comprehensive historical and country-specific comparison of the divergent development trajectories of two Western European nations
- Presents historically fact-based case studies of the historical development of the auto industry in these countries and analysis of their more recent growth paths
- Explains the effect that Brexit and further expansion of the EU could have on future trends
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview and Background
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Foreign Carmaker Assembly Plants in Belgium
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Foreign Carmaker Assembly Plants in Spain
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About this book
This book chronicles the divergent growth trends in car production in Belgium and Spain. It delves into how European integration, high wages, and the demise of GM and Ford led to plant closings in Belgium. Next, it investigates how lower wages and the expansion strategies of Western European automakers stimulated expansion in the Spanish auto industry. Finally, it offers three alternate scenarios regarding how further EU expansion and Brexit may potentially reshape the geographic footprint of European car production over the next ten years. In sum, this book utilizes history to help expand the knowledge of scholars and policymakers regarding how European integration and Brexit may impact future auto industry investment for all EU nations.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
A.J. Jacobs is in the Department of Sociology at East Carolina University, USA. He is author of Automotive FDI in Emerging Europe and The ‘New Domestic’ Automakers in the U.S. and Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Automotive Industry and European Integration
Book Subtitle: The Divergent Paths of Belgium and Spain
Authors: A. J. Jacobs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17431-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17430-9Published: 24 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17433-0Published: 25 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17431-6Published: 07 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 452
Topics: European Integration, Automotive Industry, Development Studies