Wednesday, 12th June 2019

10:00 - 10:45

Reception / Accueil
Late registration and payment
(Main Hall)
10:45 - 11:00

Opening of Conference and Welcome Speech
Tommaso PARDI, director of GERPISA
Room: Amphi Marie Curie

11:00 - 12:30

Session n°: 1

The economics and technological rationale behind change

Room:

Chair:

Bruce Belzowski, Automotive Futures

de Mello, A. M., & Marx R.

Who drives the change? Transitions for Sustainable Mobility and the role of Automotive Industry
Proff, H.

Impact of new technologies in the automotive industry - Measuring the profit impact of digitalisation
Smitka, M.

Technology and the Motor Vehicle Industry

Session n°: 2

Smart manufacturing : labour or robots?

Room:

Chair:

Tommaso Pardi, CNRS-IDHES, GIS-Gerpisa

Session n°: 3

Regional production chains?

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Chair:

Giuseppe Giulio Calabrese, CNR-Ircres

13:00 - 14:30

Session n°: 4

From global to local

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Chair:

Heike Proff, University of Duisburg Essen

Session n°: 5

Labour relations in MNCs

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Chair:

Anthony D'Costa, College of Business, The University of Alabama in Huntsville

Session n°: 6

Automotive clusters in Asia

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Chair:

Thomas Klier, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

16:00 - 17:30

Plenary session 1
The future of batteries

Speakers:
Patrick BASTARD, Director of Research, Renault
Nicolas LECLERE, Head of Electrification Group, PSA

18:00 - 19:30

Session n°: 7

Transiting towards a greener car

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Chair:

Géry Deffontaines, GERPISA

Session n°: 8

Labour relations in MNCs

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Chair:

Francesco Garibaldo, "Claudio Sabattini" Foundation

Session n°: 9

Searching for competitiveness

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Chair:

Vincent Frigant, Université de Bordeaux

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Colloque du Gerpisa

Monday, 15 June, 2026 - 08:00 - Thursday, 18 June, 2026 - 18:00

Towards a more circular economy in an increasing finite world : levers and obstacles in the global automotive industry

Appel à communication

Monday, 15 June, 2026 - 08:00 - Thursday, 18 June, 2026 - 18:59

Call for papers / Towards a more circular economy in an increasing finite world: levers and obstacles in the global automotive industry

Journée du Gerpisa

Friday, 2 October, 2026 - 14:00 - 16:00

Cycle 2026/2027

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Wednesday, 12th June 2019

Opening of Conference and Welcome Speech Tommaso PARDI, director of GERPISA Room: Amphi Marie Curie

The economics and technological rationale behind change

Who drives the change? Transitions for Sustainable Mobility and the role of Automotive Industry

Impact of new technologies in the automotive industry - Measuring the profit impact of digitalisation

Technology and the Motor Vehicle Industry

Smart manufacturing : labour or robots?

A perception of Industry 4.0 and the needed labour profile: an exploratory study in auto parts firms in Guanajuato, Mexico

From wage bargaining to the negotiation on “cognitive surplus value”: reflections on a laboratory for Industry 4.0 in Lamborghini.

The political economy of technological change: transitioning to 4.0 in plastic auto components in South Africa and Thailand

Regional production chains?

European production chains : the new geography of automotive

Struggling Paradigms: the takeover of French suppliers by the Japanese firms (1980-1984)

Powertrain sourcing in the automobile industry: The role of scale and geography in North America

From global to local

Balancing the power of global network and the power of local/asset knowledge

Canaries in the coal mine: how do newcomers participate to the growth of new niches in the automotive industry?

Manage the Organizational Change to Build the Smart Car in China A Study of SAIC-Alibaba Joint Venture

Labour relations in MNCs

Working conditions and labour organisation within Italian FCA plants

Internationalization, outsourcing and labour fragmentation. The case of FIAT

Come for the low wages, stay for the people: Labour relations and the adoption of Industry 4.0 in Japanese automotive plants in CEE

Automotive clusters in Asia

Supporting Role in Global Research and Development Networks: Automotive Technology Centres in Viet Nam

China's "Auto Belt:" Implications for Assembler Competitiveness

Process of automobile cluster development in India: Case of Maruti Suzuki

Plenary session 1 The future of batteries

Transiting towards a greener car

The emergence of electric mobility between 1995 and 2015 in the Netherlands: evidence of a transition pathway

The FCEV deployment in the Japanese transport and mobility sector: a revolution?

A Fermi estimate of economic rationality: back-casting the way forward to zero-emission society and the roll of automotive industry

Labour relations in MNCs

Long Waves and Techno-economic Paradigms: Assessing the Future of Work in the Indian Automotive Industry

World Class Involvement: Workers’ Participation in a 4.0 Lean Production System

Temporary Labor and Labor Conflicts in the Joint Ventures of VW and Toyota in China

Searching for competitiveness

From modularity to agile project management: an essay on methods and practices from IT to automobile industries

Women and cars joys and sorrows? Female directors and firm performance in the Italian supply chain

Use of Market Opportunities in Aging Societies – the example of advanced driver assistant systems

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Opening of Conference and Welcome Speech
Tommaso PARDI, director of GERPISA
Room: Amphi Marie Curie

Plenary session 1
The future of batteries