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Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017

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ISBN 978-3-319-53955-3 (e-kniha)

ISBN 9783319539546 (print)

Printed edition: ISBN 9783319539546

1ChChapter 1 Foreign Direct Investment and the Development of the Automotive Industry -- Chapter 2 The Impact of the 2008-2009 Crisis -- Chapter 3 Upgrading -- Chapter 4 Research and Development -- Chapter 5 Linkages and Spillovers -- Chapter 6 The State and the Development of the Automotive Industry -- Chapter 7 Conclusion. .

This book offers a critical analysis of recent developments in the automotive industry of East-Central Europe (ECE). Economists, industry specialists and national governments have considered the rapid development of the automotive industry in ECE in the past twenty years an unqualified success. This rapid growth has been based on large inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) from Western Europe, North America, Japan and South Korea, and it significantly contributed to GDP growth, created thousands of new jobs, and completely transformed the previously existing automotive industry in the region. This volume offers an analysis that goes beyond uncritical celebratory accounts of this rapid growth. It is based on original, detailed firm-level research conducted by the author in Czechia and Slovakia between 2009 and 2015 that covered assembly firms and the networks of component suppliers. Theoretically and conceptually, the analysis will draw on the global production networks and global value chains perspectives. Drawing on the original empirical data and on additional available information, this volume concentrates on several important questions related to the development of the automotive industry in ECE in the 2000s: • The role of FDI in the rapid development of the automotive industry after 1990 and particularly in the 2000s. • The upgrading of the automotive industry in East-Central Europe through FDI • The position of ECE in the automotive industry research and development (R&D) • The effects of the 2008-2009 economic crisis in the automotive industry of ECE. • The role of state in the rapid development of the automotive industry in ECE in the 1990s and 2000s. • The effects of FDI on domestic firms in the form of linkages between foreign-owned and domestic firms and spillovers from foreign-owned to domestic firms..

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Contents // 1 Foreign Direct Investment and the Development // of the Automotive Industry... // Introduction... // The Global and European Context of Developments // in the ECE Automotive Industry... // EDI Trends in the ECE Automotive Industry... // Czechia... // Poland... // Hungary... // Slovakia... // Romania... // Slovenia ... // Serbia... // Bulgaria... // Future Prospects of Automotive FDI in East-Central Europe // and Its Long-Term Developmental Effects... // The Continuing Attractiveness of ECE for Automotive FDI... // Long-Term Effects of FDI-Driven Automotive Industry // Development in ECE... // Conclusion... // References... // 2 The Impact of the 2008-2009 Crisis... // Introduction... // Global Production Networks and the Economic Crisis... // The Uneven Nature of the 2008-2009 Economic Crisis as a Symptom of the Broader Geographic Shift in the Global // Automotive Production... // ECE’s Position in the European Automotive Production System ... . Czech and Slovak Automotive Industries... // 1 // 1 // 3 // 13 // 17 // 19 // 21 // 24 // 26 // 28 // 30 // 31 // 32 // 32 // 38 // 39 // 41 // 47 // 47 // 48 // 50 // 53 // 54 // vii // viii // Contents // General Effects of the Economic Crisis in the Czech // and Slovak Automotive Industries... 56 // Firm-Level Effects of the 2008—2009 Economic // Crisis in the Czech and Slovak Automotive Industries... 59 // Declines in Revenues and Production... 60 // Employment Effects... 62 // Bankruptcies and Relocations during

the Economic Crisis... 66 // Conclusion... 69 // References... 70 // 3 Upgrading... 75 // Introduction... 75 // Industrial Upgrading... 77 // Measuring Industrial Upgrading at the Firm Level... 82 // Government Policy and Upgrading of the Czech // Automotive Industry... 86 // The Czech Automotive Industry... 88 // 1998-2006 Upgrading in the Czech Automotive Industry... 92 // Industrial Upgrading in the Domestic and Foreign Firms... 94 // Changes in the Relative Position of Czechia in the European // Automotive Value Chains... 97 // Conclusion... 99 // References... ?2 // 4 Research and Development... 107 // Introduction... 107 // The Internationalization of Corporate R