Emerging Auto Industries in a World of Global Value Chains

This book provides a comprehensive overview of automotive industry development in emerging countries through the lens of global value chains. Over the past two decades, automobile production increasingly shifted to emerging economies, reconfiguring the global auto industry significantly. This volume traces this shift to illustrate industrial development dynamics, focusing on new players, their industrial strategies and on structural characteristics of these emerging markets. The volume's first part is devoted to the theoretical analysis of industrial development issues affecting automotive industrialisation, including institutions, business strategies, technological change and labour regimes. The second part collects a range of country cases illustrating different automotive industrialisation trajectories. These include better-known countries as well as still underexplored cases across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. This book will provide valuable reading to those researching globalisation and emerging countries, their comparative industrialisation, and the intersection of government policies and business strategy, specifically concerning the automotive industry.

Offers a comprehensive, comparative review of automotive industrialisation in developing countries Discusses industrial policy and automotive industrialisation under conditions of Global Value Chains Gives complementary analyses of development challenges and strategies in larger and smaller industrialising countries

Auteur

Lorenza Monaco (Phd SOAS, London) is a Researcher at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London, UK. She is also Senior Research Associate at SarchI Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and part of GERPISA. She works on the political economy of industrial development in the Global South, with a focus on the automotive industry.

Martin Schröder is Associate Professor at the College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, and Visiting Researcher at the Research Institute of Automobile and Parts Industries, Waseda University, Japan. His research interests are regional economic integration in ASEAN, the political economy of the automotive industry, and digitalisation in the automotive industry.

Contenu

1: Introduction : The Automotive Industry in Emerging Economies: Actors, Policies and Structural Issues.-

PART 1: THEORETICAL ISSUES.-

2: Industrial Policy and Global Value Chains: Implications for Emerging Auto Industries.-

3: The Power of Institutions.-

4: The conditions for upgrading: the role of multinational automobile car makers in the governance of global supply chains.-

5: Automotive Development Strategies in the Age of Global Value Chains: National Champion, Product Champion and Technology Champion.-

6: Technology adoption within GVCs: demanding stairway or benign escalator?.-

7: GVCs and Labour Informalisation.-

8: The Development of the Automotive Industry in Less Developed Countries.-

PART 2: DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES AND COUNTRY EXPERIENCES (EASTERN EUROPE, LATIN AMERICA, ASIA AND AFRICA).-

9: The Changing Position of Poland's Automotive Industry in the European Division of Labour.-

10: Supply Chain Linkages in the Hungarian Automotive Industry.-

11: The Brazilian Automotive Industry: Ups, Downs and Future Challenges.-

12: Market-driven specialisation: The recent formation of the light commercial vehicles' production hub in Argentina in a context of external problems.-

13: The role of the state in the emergence and development of the electric vehicles industry in China.-

14: India.-

15: Thailand: does industrial policy still matter in an era of transition towards the electrification of the automotive industry?.-

16: Vietnam's Automotive Industry: Vinfast or Why Industry Dynamics Matter for Industrialisation in the Age of Global Value Chains.-

17: Is it all about volume? The political economy of localisation and technological upgrading in South Africa.-

18: Morocco's systematic approach to developing an export-oriented automotive sector.-

CONCLUSIONS.