The GERPISA GIS

GERPISA, the Permanent Study and Research Group on the Automobile Industry and its Employees, was set up in 1992, around the personalities of Michel Freyssenet (sociologist, EHESS), Robert Boyer (economist, CNRS), and Patrick Fridenson (historian, EHESS), as an international social science research network with a strong ambition: to oppose productive models analysing the complexity of the real automobile world, made up of manufacturers with different trajectories, products, organisations, cultures of innovation and R&D, salary relations..., which are also situated in different market and economic institution contexts... to the simple and normative model of the Toyota production system, supposedly destined to impose itself on the world.
 
Its vocation today is to coordinate and advance the work of social science researchers (sociologists, economists, management scholars, geographers, politicians, historians) on the automobile industry and the new mobilities, constituted as federating research objects, then to make the link between the international network and the public and private actors of the automobile.
 
Set up in 2008 as a Scientific Interest Group (GIS) under the direction of Bernard Jullien (economist, University of Bordeaux), in order to disseminate research results and shed light on the social sciences on the worlds of the automobile, GERPISA receives the support of university institutions (ENS Paris-Saclay ex-Cachan, Ministry of Higher Education and Research) and stakeholders, both public (Ministry of Energy and Solidarity Transition, Ministry of the Economy / General Directorate of Enterprises) and private linked to the automotive world (CCFA - French Automotive Manufacturers' Committee, FIEV - Federation of Vehicle Equipment Industries).
 
The main supports for this popularisation of knowledge are the monthly seminar (http://gerpisa.org/en/node/5168), the annual international colloquium (http://gerpisa.org/en/node/911), and various publications including a newsletter and the blog.
 
GERPISA is hosted by ENS Paris-Saclay (formerly ENS Cachan).
It receives administrative support from the MSH Paris-Saclay, whose interdisciplinary approaches and cooperation with all stakeholders, both public and private, it aims to bring to the Saclay Plateau and beyond.
 
It has been directed since 2015 by Tommaso Pardi, sociologist, research fellow at the CNRS (IDHES).
To receive our information and the newsletter, please register on gerpisa.org/user/register.

This is the new site of the International Network Gerpisa. Some of the content of the old site has already been transferred, the rest will followed but it is already available in its old form here:

 
- The actes du Gerpisa from the number 5 to the number 41.
- The lettre du Gerpisa from the number 76 to the number 198.
- The around 600 presentations of the International Colloquiums of Gerpisa from the 9th (2001) until the 17th (2009).