Speaker: Stephen Bouquin, Centre Pierre Naville
For the automotive industry, the last decade was synonym of growing challenges of all kinds. From hardening normative frameworks regarding pollution to technological innovation (industry 4.0, digitization, electrification) as well as structural shifts in demand for new (and used) cars. Of course, not all firms where confronted in the same way to these challenges. Still, our main hypothesis is that these challenges became so important that lean production reached its limits and won’t be able to sustain profitability in a sufficient way without a sharp reduction of labor costs and a deep internal reorganization of capital itself.

Adriana Marotti de Mello, is associate professor at the School of Economics and Business at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Her research interests include Circular Economy, Sustainable Transitions and Technological Transformation in Automotive Industry. She is Editor in Chief of REGE (Revista de Gestão).

Heike Proff has a Chair in General Business Administration & International Automotive Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Duisburg, Germany. Her reseach interests are Strategic and International Management, especially the transformation of the automotive industry, including mobility ecosystems, business models and the circular economy. She is in the steering committee of Gerpisa (The International Network of the Automobile) and in the PVMI (Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation).

PVMI, the MIT IMVP and Gerpisa: 40 years of exchanges and research collaboration

John Paul MacDuffie, Wharton and PVMI
Takahiro Fujimoto, Waseda
Sue Helper, White House Council of Economic Advisors (virtual only)
Merieke Stevens, Erasmus University
Tommaso Pardi, ENS Paris-Saclay and Gerpisa

Gerpisa 2022 / Plenary: Labor Roundtable: the UAW, UNIFOR, and Mexico

Jennifer Kelly, Senior Research Analyst, UAW
Angelo DiCaro, Director of Research, UNIFOR
Willebaldo Gomez Zuppa, UNAM

The Regulatory World of Automotive

Bryant Walker Smith, co-director of the University of Michigan Project on Law and Mobility
Michael Olechiw, US Environmental Protection Agency
John Bozzella, Alliance for Automotive Innovation, President and OICA President