Short description:

This book provides a global picture of  automotive industry development in emerging countries through the lens of global value chain analysis. Over the past two decades, auto production increasingly shifted to emerging economies, marking a significant reconfiguration of the global auto industry. This volume traces such shift to illustrate industrial development dynamics, focusing on new global players, their industrial strategies and on the structural characteristics of these emerging markets. It features chapters devoted to the theoretical analysis of industrial development in emerging countries, and collects a wide range of country cases illustrating different trajectories of auto industrialisation. These include better-known cases of dominant players as well as still underexplored cases such as Argentina, Hungary, Poland, Morocco, South Africa, Thailand and Vietnam. This book will provide valuable reading to those researching globalization and emerging countries, their comparative industrialisation, and the intersection of government policies and business strategy, specifically concerning the automotive industry. 

Lorenza Monaco (Phd SOAS, London) is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London, a Senior Research Associate at SarchI Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg, and part of GERPISA. She works on the political economy of industrial development in emerging economies, with a special 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.

Long description:

This book provides a global picture of  automotive industry development in emerging countries through the lens of global value chain analysis. Over the past two decades, auto production increasingly shifted to emerging economies, marking a significant reconfiguration of the global auto industry. This volume traces such shift to illustrate industrial development dynamics, focusing on new global players, their industrial strategies and on the structural characteristics of these emerging markets. It features chapters devoted to the theoretical analysis of industrial development in emerging countries, and collects a wide range of country cases illustrating different trajectories of auto industrialisation. These include better-known cases of dominant players as well as still underexplored cases such as Argentina, Hungary, Poland, Morocco, South Africa, Thailand and Vietnam. This book will provide valuable reading to those researching globalization and emerging countries, their comparative industrialisation, and the intersection of government policies and business strategy, specifically concerning the automotive industry. 

Table of Contents:

1: Introduction.- 

PART 1: Theoretical Perspectives on Development of the Global Automotive Value Chain

2: Industrial Development in the Age of Global Value Chains: Implications for Emerging Automotive Industries.-

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

4: The Conditions for Upgrading: the Role of Multinational Automobile Carmakers in the Governance of Global Value Chains.- 

5: How Labour Regimes Explain Development in Global Value Chains.- 

6: Technology Adoption within Global Value Chains: Upgrading was (and remains) a Demanding Stairway.-

7: Institutional Origins of Successful Auto Industrialization: The East Asian Cases.- 

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

PART 2: Country Cases: Development Trajectories of Automotive Industries in Emerging Countries.- 

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

10: Supply Chain Linkages in the Hungarian Automotive Industry: Challenges for Industrial Upgrading.- 

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

12: The Emergence of the Light Commercial Vehicles Production Hub in Argentina.-

13: The Role of the State in the Emergence and Development of the Electric Vehicles Industry in China: Achievements, Opportunities and Challenges Ahead.- 

14: Auto and EVs: the Case of 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: Expansion with Limited Development.- 

17: Production Volumes, Localisation and Technological Upgrading: South Africa in the Global Automotive Value Chain.-

18: Morocco?s Systematic Approach to Developing an Export-oriented Automotive Sector.-

Part 3: Conclusions.-

19: The Present and Future of Emerging Automotive Industries: Value Chain Reconfigurations as Drivers and Outcomes of Change.

CONCLUSIONS.