Structuring new automotive industries, restructuring old automotive industries and the new geopolitics of the global automotive sector

Submitted by administrateur on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 10:39

Publication Type:

Conference Paper

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Source:

Gerpisa colloquium, Paris (2012)

Abstract:

The right question for us is to translate this too general topic in research questions that can help us clarifying what structural changes are taking place:

Within this industry
In terms of balance of power
Between different world regions
Between different firms
Between different parts of the value chain

In terms of characteristics or definition of the industry

What products ?
For which clients ?
With which technologies ?
Between this industry and the rest of the economies

To draw the main trends identified by the previous program’s works and by the papers presented in Krakow

Through the traditional GERPISA’s “trichotomy” between
Product policies
Productive organization
Employment relationship

By adding a more explicit political dimension, intended as the place where the actors search/produce an emerging and problematic coherence

Between supply side and demand side answers given to the main questions risen by the global restructuring/structuring process
Between global and local trends

To propose a set of hypothesis and research questions to structure a collective work for the next four years

Thème: Trajectoires et stratégies des constructeurs

Thème: Manufacturer trajectories and strategies