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Towards a new map of automobile manufacturing in Europe? :

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3642794718

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3642794734

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9783642794711

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9783642794735

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b573970

Title Proper

Towards a new map of automobile manufacturing in Europe? :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

new production concepts and spatial restructuring

First Statement of Responsibility

Ray Hudson, Eike W. Schamp (eds.) ; with contributions by Ash Amin [and others].

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin ; New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1995.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(xvi, 269 pages) : illustrations, maps

Text of Note

1 New Challenges to the Automobile Production Systems in Europe --; 1.1 Introduction --; 1.2 The European Automobile Industry in Global Context --; 1.3 The Automobile Production Systems Approach --; 2 National and International Regulatory Frameworks: The Politics of European Automobile Production and Trade --; 2.1 Introduction --; 2.2 National Regulatory Environments in Europe --; 2.3 International Regulation: the European Community's Policies Towards Auto Production and Trade --; 2.4 Concluding Comments --; 3 "Europeanisation" in the Automotive Components Sector and Its Implications for State and Locality --; 3.1 Introduction --; 3.2 The Changing Geography of Automotive Components Production in the United Kingdom --; 3.3 "Europeanisation" and Corporate Strategies in the Automotive Component Sector --; 3.4 Concluding Comments --; 4 The Japanese, the European Market and the Automobile Industry in the United Kingdom --; 4.1 Introduction --; 4.2 Competition Between Automobile Companies in the United Kingdom --; 4.3 Cooperation Between Automobile Companies in the United Kingdom --; 4.4 Cooperation Between Component Suppliers and Automobile Producing Companies in the United Kingdom --; 4.5 Competition and Cooperation Between Component Companies in the United Kingdom and European Community --; 4.6 Capital: Labour Relations --; 4.7 State Regulation of Japanese Competition: European Community Trade Policies, National Interests and Corporate Interests --; 4.8 The Local and Regional Development Implications of Japanese Inward Investment: Just-in-Time and In One Place? --; 4.9 Concluding Comments --; 5 The German Automobile Production System Going European --; 5.1 Introduction --; 5.2 Market Structures During the 1980s --; 5.3 Competitiveness via the Technological Competences of Automobile Producers --; 5.4 Organisational and Spatial Restructuring of the Components Sector --; 5.5 Consequences for Labour --; 5.6 The Changing Geography of the German Automobile Production System During the 1990s --; 6 The Italian Automobile Industry and the Case of Fiat: One Country, One Company, One Market? --; 6.1 Introduction --; 6.2 The Italian Automobile Industry: Some Structural Features --; 6.3 The Relationship Between the Automobile Industry and Government Economic Policies --; 6.4 Spatial Strategies and Reorganisation Strategies --; 6.5 Continuity and Discontinuity in the Geography of the Italian Automobile System --; 6.6 Concluding Comments --; 7 Competitive Strategies in the World Market: The Case of Renault and the Emergence of a European Group? --; 7.1 Introduction --; 7.2 Why Did European Automobile Companies Have to Make Strategic Changes? --; 7.3 A Basic Answer: Improving Efficiency --; 7.4 A Missed Opportunity: Renault's Failure to Grow Outside Europe --; 7.5 The Result: The Weaknesses of Renault in the 1990s --; 7.6 A European Answer: Rise and Fall of the Renault-Volvo Merger --; 7.7 Privatisation and After? --; 8 The Restructuring of the Swedish Automobile Production System --; 8.1 Introduction --; 8.2 The Swedish Automobile Production System --; Some General Characteristics --; 8.3 Volvo and Saab: Corporate Structures and Strategies --; 8.4 1970 to 1987: From Crisis to Success --; 8.5 1988 to 1992: Renewed Crisis and Intensive Restructuring --; 8.6 Post 1992: Future Prospects for Swedish Car Production --; 8.7 Concluding Comments --; 9 Multi-purpose Vehicles, a New Opportunity for the Periphery? Lessons from the Ford\VW Project (Portugal) --; 9.1 Introduction --; 9.2 Prospects for the Growth of Multi-purpose Vehicles: The Visible Hand of the Single Market --; 9.3 The Automobile Industry in Portugal --; 9.4 The Ford Wolkswagen (AutoEuropa) Project --; 9.5 Concluding Comments --; 10 Interdependent and Uneven Development in the Spatial Reorganisation of the Automobile Production Systems in Europe --; 10.1 Introduction --; 10.2 Challenges to the Core from Western and Southern Europe --; 10.3 Central and Eastern Europe --; the New 'Frontier' of European Automobile Production --; 10.4 Resistance to the Erosion of the European Automobile Core --; 10.5 Towards a New Map of Automobile Production in Europe? --; Author Index --; Location Index.

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This book discusses the changes in the regional infrastructure within the European automobile industry. It is based on the increased competition between the European automobile industry and its suppliers, which has several causes: the intensified activities of Japanese competitors in Europe, leading to faster adaptation to new production concepts in European companies (lean production); concentration of suppliers in connection with these new concepts; new opportunities and competition as a result of the home market and the opening of Eastern Europe.

Automobile industry and trade -- Europe.

Automobile industry and trade.

Europe.

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Ray Hudson, Eike W. Schamp (eds.) ; with contributions by Ash Amin [and others].

Ash Amin

Eike W Schamp

Ray Hudson

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