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Globalisation of the automotive industry: main features and trends
Abstract
This paper lays out the main features of the global automotive industry and identifies
several important trends. A boom in developing country sales and production has not
yet overshadowed the importance of existing markets in developed regions. Regional
integration is very strong at an operational level, yet the industry has recently
developed a set of global-scale value chain linkages, and retains national and local
elements as well. The paper highlights how global, regional, national and local value
chains are nested to create a pattern of global integration that is distinctive to
the industry. We use global value chain analysis to help explain the limits of build-to-order
in the industry, the role of regional and global suppliers, the shifting geography
of production and how the characteristics of value chain linkages in the industry
favour tight integration and regional production. We describe how industry concentration
focuses power in the hands of a few large lead firms and discuss the implications
of this for value chain governance and the geography of production.
Type
Journal articleSubject
globalisationautomobile industry
vehicle assembly
automotive parts
GVC
global value chains
global integration
build-to-order
BTO
regional production
value chain governance
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