Petr Pavlínek
Biographic Data
| ID | 1474544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petr Pavlínek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petr |
| FAMILY NAME | Pavlínek |
| SIGNATURE | PAVLÍNEK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2799-1230 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 263 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Geopolitical Decoupling in Global Production Networks
GEOPOLITICAL DECOUPLING IN GPNs 139Iran was analyzed because it was the most sanctioned country in the world with the most stringent sanctions before 2022 (Farzanegan and Batmanghelidj 2023), and its automotive industry, which was the sixteenth largest vehicle producer in the world in 2022 (Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobile [OICA] 2023), has specifically been targeted by economic sanctions that have aimed to decouple it f…
Agile Against Lean: An Inquiry into the Production System of Hyundai Motor
This book is an essential read for those who want to understand how Hyundai Motors (HM) has grown into one of the five largest vehicle manufacturers in the world. It is an in-depth case study analy
Revisiting economic geography and foreign direct investment in less developed regions
This article focuses on the long-term effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in less developed regions (LDRs). It identifies different types and mechanisms of FDI in more developed regions (MDRs) and LDRs, which lead to different regional development outcomes. It critically evaluates the most important approaches to FDI in LDRs developed in economic geography, namely the branch plant economy and truncation, new regionalism, new international …
Relative positions of countries in the core-periphery structure of the European automotive industry
This article investigates the core-semiperiphery-periphery structure of the European automotive industry between 2003 and 2017 by drawing on the global value chains and global production networks perspectives and on the conceptual explanation of the spatial division of labor in transnational production networks in the automotive industry. It develops a methodology to empirically determine the relative position of countries in the core, semiperiph…
Restructuring and internationalization of the European automotive industry
This article draws on Harvey's theory of uneven development and spatio-temporal fix to conceptualize the changing geography of the European automotive industry based on the spatial profit-seeking strategies of automotive firms. It employs the spatial concept of integrated peripheries, in order to explain the growth of the automotive industry in peripheral regions and its contemporaneous restructuring in existing locations. The empirical analysis …
Global Production Networks, Foreign Direct Investment, and Supplier Linkages in the Integrated Peripheries of the Automotive Industry
This article examines the regional development effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the integrated peripheries of the automotive industry by analyzing supplier linkages between foreign subsidiaries and domestic firms. It develops the spatial concept of integrated peripheries in core-based macroregional production networks. Conceptually, it draws on the dynamic notion of uneven development in contemporary capitalism, namely, on David Harv…
Value creation and value capture in the automotive industry: Empirical evidence from Czechia
This article investigates how distinct tiers of firms contribute to value creation and value capture in the automotive industry. We employ firm-level indicators to evaluate the value creation and capture of distinct supplier tiers in the Czech automotive industry, while considering differences between foreign-owned and domestic firms. Our analysis suggests that the economic effects of the automotive industry largely depend on its capital intensit…
Linkages and spillovers in global production networks: Firm-level analysis of the Czech automotive industry
The aim of this article is to analyze the linkages between and spillovers from foreign-owned (foreign) to domestic-owned (domestic) firms in the Czech automotive industry. Theoretically and conceptually, our research draws on two strands of literature: spillovers, linkages and effects of foreign direct investment on domestic firms and regional economic development; and literature on global production networks, global value chains and industrial u…
Whose success? The state–foreign capital nexus and the development of the automotive industry in Slovakia
Using the case study of Slovakia, this article considers the role of the state in the rapid growth of the automotive industry in integrated peripheral markets of the global automotive industry. Although this growth has been mainly driven by the investment strategies of automotive lead firms, the state has played an important role by accommodating the strategic needs of foreign capital through neoliberal economic policies. In addition to secondary…
The impact of the 2008–2009 crisis on the automotive industry: Global trends and firm-level effects in Central Europe
This article examines the impact of the 2008–2009 economic crisis on the automotive industry. The uneven nature of the crisis contributed to the gradual shift in production from traditional core areas of the global automobile industry to selected less developed economies. In this context, the paper analyses the firm-level effects of the economic crisis in the Czech and Slovak automotive industries as two examples of automotive industry peripherie…
The Internationalization of Corporate R&D and the Automotive Industry R&D of East‐Central Europe
This article examines the development of corporate research and development (R&D) in the automotive industry of East‐Central Europe (ECE) in the context of the internationalization of corporate R&D generally and the automotive industry R&D specifically. Driven by large inflows of foreign direct investment since the early 1990s, vehicle assembly and the production of automotive components grew significantly in ECE. In my study I investigated the e…
The 2008-2009 automotive industry crisis and regional unemployment in Central Europe
This paper evaluates the influence of the broadly defined automotive industry on regional increases in unemployment in the Czech Republic (Czechia) during the 2008–2009 economic crisis. Drawing on a unique database of 490 firms with 20 or more employees each and a survey of 274 firms, we employ eight indicators to explain changes in the microregional unemployment rate between August 2008 and August 2009. We also introduce and calculate the value …
Upgrading in the automotive industry: Firm-level evidence from Central Europe
Drawing on the global value chains and global production networks perspectives and using financial indicators for individual firms, we evaluate industrial upgrading of 490 Czech-based automotive firms during the period of significant inflows of foreign direct investment into the Czech automotive industry between 1998 and 2006. We consider differences among process, product and functional upgrading and the effect of government policies on upgradin…
Industrial Upgrading Through Foreign Direct Investment in Central European Automotive Manufacturing
This article draws on the global value-chain approach to investigate industrial upgrading in the automotive industry of four Central European (CE) countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. We review post-1990 production trends and the associated changes in the geography of automobile production in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) based on inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI).To evaluate industrial upgrading, we examine the ch…
Regional Restructuring of the Škoda Auto Supplier Network in the Czech Republic
This article examines the regional restructuring of the supplier base of SkodaAuto, a vehicle manufacturer in the Czech Republic (Czechia). We investigate the tiered structure of the Škoda suppliers in Czechia by classifying 232 Czech-based Škoda suppliers in three distinct tiers and comparing the differences in the distribution between the foreign-owned and domestic suppliers in these tiers.We explore the changes in the spatial distribution of t…
Restructuring of the Polish Passenger Car Industry through Foreign Direct Investment
A U.S.-based geographer discusses the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Polish passenger car industry. The paper illustrates the magnitude of enterprise restructuring and changes in a significant economic sector. Using the case study approach, the author focuses on three of the largest foreign-owned passenger car makers in Poland: Fiat Auto Poland, Daewoo-FSO, and Opel Polska. He then considers FDI in the rest of the Polish automo…
Regional Development Implications of Foreign Direct Investment in Central Europe
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been accorded a central role in the post-communist economic transformation of Central and Eastern Europe. This paper examines the regional effects of FDI in Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in the 1990s. It challenges uncritical views of FDI and its role in regional economic transformations by considering its potentially adverse effects for regional economic development, such as the…
Environmental Pasts/Environmental Futures in Post-Socialist Europe
This contribution focuses on the limits of European Union programmes and accession practices on environmental policies and performance in Central and Eastern Europe. In particular, we document some of the ways in which state socialist and post-socialist environmental conditions, practices and policies are shaping, and in turn being shaped by, the path of accession and integration. We focus on the diverse and changing patterns of air, water and so…
Transformation of the Czech Automotive Components Industry Through Foreign Direct Investment
This paper traces the profound restructuring of the Czech automotive components industry during the 1990s and early 2000s through foreign direct investment (FDI), and the integration of Czech-based suppliers into European and global automotive supplier networks. The magnitude of change is highlighted by an initial characterization of the Czechoslovak state socialist automotive components industry prior to restructuring. The paper then focuses on …
Domestic Privatisation and its Effects on Industrial Enterprises in East-Central Europe: Evidence from the Czech Motor Component Industry
PRIVATISATION OF FORMERLY STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES (SOEs) has been considered one of the most important issues of post-communist economic transformation into market-based economic systems in East-Central Europe (ECE). Privatisation of all economic sectors (i.e. industry, agriculture, services) and the development of the private sector in the economy was the central element of all economic ‘transition’ plans. According to the liberal view, the ‘tra…
Transformation of the Central and East European Passenger Car Industry: Selective Peripheral Integration through Foreign Direct Investment
The Central and East European (CEE) passenger car industry underwent major transformations through foreign direct investment (FDI) in the 1990s. The author demonstrates that the effects of FDI on the passenger car industry have been profound, but geographically uneven. To understand the different regional and local strategies of foreign car producers better, the author introduces a classification of FDI in the passenger car industry based on the …
Internationalization and Embeddedness in East‐Central European Transition: The Contrasting Geographies of Inward Investment in the Czech and Slovak Republics
PAVLINEK P. and SMITH A. (1998) Internationalization and embeddedness in East-Central European transition: the contrasting geographies of inward investment in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Reg. Studies 32, 619-638. Inward investment has been accorded a central role in the internationalization and restructuring of East-Central European economies. This paper undertakes a critical examination of the capacity of inward investment projects in the Cz…
Selected Theoretical Interpretations of the Contemporary Transition of Capitalism
The contemporary transition of capitalism is changing the nature of the capitalist economic and social system. This paper focuses on the debate around the alleged transition from Fordism to post-Fordism. It identifies and critically evaluates four Western schools of thought engaged in this debate: Schumpeterian and neo-Schumpeterian perspective, flexible specialisation, regulation theory and the Marxist perspective. The paper also shows how some …
Regional development and the disintegration of Czechoslovakia
Regional Transformation in Czechoslovakia: Towards a Market Economy
Internationalization and Embeddedness in East‐Central European Transition: The Contrasting Geographies of Inward Investment in the Czech and Slovak Republics
PAVLINEK P. and SMITH A. (1998) Internationalization and embeddedness in East-Central European transition: the contrasting geographies of inward investment in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Reg. Studies 32, 619-638. Inward investment has been accorded a central role in the internationalization and restructuring of East-Central European economies. This paper undertakes a critical examination of the capacity of inward investment projects in the Cz…
Regional Development Implications of Foreign Direct Investment in Central Europe
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been accorded a central role in the post-communist economic transformation of Central and Eastern Europe. This paper examines the regional effects of FDI in Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in the 1990s. It challenges uncritical views of FDI and its role in regional economic transformations by considering its potentially adverse effects for regional economic development, such as the…
Industrial Upgrading Through Foreign Direct Investment in Central European Automotive Manufacturing
This article draws on the global value-chain approach to investigate industrial upgrading in the automotive industry of four Central European (CE) countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. We review post-1990 production trends and the associated changes in the geography of automobile production in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) based on inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI).To evaluate industrial upgrading, we examine the ch…
Regional Restructuring of the Škoda Auto Supplier Network in the Czech Republic
This article examines the regional restructuring of the supplier base of SkodaAuto, a vehicle manufacturer in the Czech Republic (Czechia). We investigate the tiered structure of the Škoda suppliers in Czechia by classifying 232 Czech-based Škoda suppliers in three distinct tiers and comparing the differences in the distribution between the foreign-owned and domestic suppliers in these tiers.We explore the changes in the spatial distribution of t…
Whose success? The state–foreign capital nexus and the development of the automotive industry in Slovakia
Using the case study of Slovakia, this article considers the role of the state in the rapid growth of the automotive industry in integrated peripheral markets of the global automotive industry. Although this growth has been mainly driven by the investment strategies of automotive lead firms, the state has played an important role by accommodating the strategic needs of foreign capital through neoliberal economic policies. In addition to secondary…
Upgrading in the automotive industry: Firm-level evidence from Central Europe
Drawing on the global value chains and global production networks perspectives and using financial indicators for individual firms, we evaluate industrial upgrading of 490 Czech-based automotive firms during the period of significant inflows of foreign direct investment into the Czech automotive industry between 1998 and 2006. We consider differences among process, product and functional upgrading and the effect of government policies on upgradin…
Global Production Networks, Foreign Direct Investment, and Supplier Linkages in the Integrated Peripheries of the Automotive Industry
This article examines the regional development effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the integrated peripheries of the automotive industry by analyzing supplier linkages between foreign subsidiaries and domestic firms. It develops the spatial concept of integrated peripheries in core-based macroregional production networks. Conceptually, it draws on the dynamic notion of uneven development in contemporary capitalism, namely, on David Harv…
Linkages and spillovers in global production networks: Firm-level analysis of the Czech automotive industry
The aim of this article is to analyze the linkages between and spillovers from foreign-owned (foreign) to domestic-owned (domestic) firms in the Czech automotive industry. Theoretically and conceptually, our research draws on two strands of literature: spillovers, linkages and effects of foreign direct investment on domestic firms and regional economic development; and literature on global production networks, global value chains and industrial u…
The impact of the 2008–2009 crisis on the automotive industry: Global trends and firm-level effects in Central Europe
This article examines the impact of the 2008–2009 economic crisis on the automotive industry. The uneven nature of the crisis contributed to the gradual shift in production from traditional core areas of the global automobile industry to selected less developed economies. In this context, the paper analyses the firm-level effects of the economic crisis in the Czech and Slovak automotive industries as two examples of automotive industry peripherie…
Regional development and the disintegration of Czechoslovakia
Relative positions of countries in the core-periphery structure of the European automotive industry
This article investigates the core-semiperiphery-periphery structure of the European automotive industry between 2003 and 2017 by drawing on the global value chains and global production networks perspectives and on the conceptual explanation of the spatial division of labor in transnational production networks in the automotive industry. It develops a methodology to empirically determine the relative position of countries in the core, semiperiph…
Domestic Privatisation and its Effects on Industrial Enterprises in East-Central Europe: Evidence from the Czech Motor Component Industry
PRIVATISATION OF FORMERLY STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES (SOEs) has been considered one of the most important issues of post-communist economic transformation into market-based economic systems in East-Central Europe (ECE). Privatisation of all economic sectors (i.e. industry, agriculture, services) and the development of the private sector in the economy was the central element of all economic ‘transition’ plans. According to the liberal view, the ‘tra…
Restructuring and internationalization of the European automotive industry
This article draws on Harvey's theory of uneven development and spatio-temporal fix to conceptualize the changing geography of the European automotive industry based on the spatial profit-seeking strategies of automotive firms. It employs the spatial concept of integrated peripheries, in order to explain the growth of the automotive industry in peripheral regions and its contemporaneous restructuring in existing locations. The empirical analysis …
Transformation of the Central and East European Passenger Car Industry: Selective Peripheral Integration through Foreign Direct Investment
The Central and East European (CEE) passenger car industry underwent major transformations through foreign direct investment (FDI) in the 1990s. The author demonstrates that the effects of FDI on the passenger car industry have been profound, but geographically uneven. To understand the different regional and local strategies of foreign car producers better, the author introduces a classification of FDI in the passenger car industry based on the …
Transformation of the Czech Automotive Components Industry Through Foreign Direct Investment
This paper traces the profound restructuring of the Czech automotive components industry during the 1990s and early 2000s through foreign direct investment (FDI), and the integration of Czech-based suppliers into European and global automotive supplier networks. The magnitude of change is highlighted by an initial characterization of the Czechoslovak state socialist automotive components industry prior to restructuring. The paper then focuses on …
Value creation and value capture in the automotive industry: Empirical evidence from Czechia
This article investigates how distinct tiers of firms contribute to value creation and value capture in the automotive industry. We employ firm-level indicators to evaluate the value creation and capture of distinct supplier tiers in the Czech automotive industry, while considering differences between foreign-owned and domestic firms. Our analysis suggests that the economic effects of the automotive industry largely depend on its capital intensit…
The 2008-2009 automotive industry crisis and regional unemployment in Central Europe
This paper evaluates the influence of the broadly defined automotive industry on regional increases in unemployment in the Czech Republic (Czechia) during the 2008–2009 economic crisis. Drawing on a unique database of 490 firms with 20 or more employees each and a survey of 274 firms, we employ eight indicators to explain changes in the microregional unemployment rate between August 2008 and August 2009. We also introduce and calculate the value …
Environmental Pasts/Environmental Futures in Post-Socialist Europe
This contribution focuses on the limits of European Union programmes and accession practices on environmental policies and performance in Central and Eastern Europe. In particular, we document some of the ways in which state socialist and post-socialist environmental conditions, practices and policies are shaping, and in turn being shaped by, the path of accession and integration. We focus on the diverse and changing patterns of air, water and so…
Geopolitical Decoupling in Global Production Networks
GEOPOLITICAL DECOUPLING IN GPNs 139Iran was analyzed because it was the most sanctioned country in the world with the most stringent sanctions before 2022 (Farzanegan and Batmanghelidj 2023), and its automotive industry, which was the sixteenth largest vehicle producer in the world in 2022 (Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobile [OICA] 2023), has specifically been targeted by economic sanctions that have aimed to decouple it f…
The Internationalization of Corporate R&D and the Automotive Industry R&D of East‐Central Europe
This article examines the development of corporate research and development (R&D) in the automotive industry of East‐Central Europe (ECE) in the context of the internationalization of corporate R&D generally and the automotive industry R&D specifically. Driven by large inflows of foreign direct investment since the early 1990s, vehicle assembly and the production of automotive components grew significantly in ECE. In my study I investigated the e…
Revisiting economic geography and foreign direct investment in less developed regions
This article focuses on the long-term effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in less developed regions (LDRs). It identifies different types and mechanisms of FDI in more developed regions (MDRs) and LDRs, which lead to different regional development outcomes. It critically evaluates the most important approaches to FDI in LDRs developed in economic geography, namely the branch plant economy and truncation, new regionalism, new international …
Restructuring of the Polish Passenger Car Industry through Foreign Direct Investment
A U.S.-based geographer discusses the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Polish passenger car industry. The paper illustrates the magnitude of enterprise restructuring and changes in a significant economic sector. Using the case study approach, the author focuses on three of the largest foreign-owned passenger car makers in Poland: Fiat Auto Poland, Daewoo-FSO, and Opel Polska. He then considers FDI in the rest of the Polish automo…
Regional Transformation in Czechoslovakia: Towards a Market Economy
Regional development and the disintegration of Czechoslovakia
Selected Theoretical Interpretations of the Contemporary Transition of Capitalism
The contemporary transition of capitalism is changing the nature of the capitalist economic and social system. This paper focuses on the debate around the alleged transition from Fordism to post-Fordism. It identifies and critically evaluates four Western schools of thought engaged in this debate: Schumpeterian and neo-Schumpeterian perspective, flexible specialisation, regulation theory and the Marxist perspective. The paper also shows how some …
Internationalization and Embeddedness in East‐Central European Transition: The Contrasting Geographies of Inward Investment in the Czech and Slovak Republics
PAVLINEK P. and SMITH A. (1998) Internationalization and embeddedness in East-Central European transition: the contrasting geographies of inward investment in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Reg. Studies 32, 619-638. Inward investment has been accorded a central role in the internationalization and restructuring of East-Central European economies. This paper undertakes a critical examination of the capacity of inward investment projects in the Cz…
Domestic Privatisation and its Effects on Industrial Enterprises in East-Central Europe: Evidence from the Czech Motor Component Industry
PRIVATISATION OF FORMERLY STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES (SOEs) has been considered one of the most important issues of post-communist economic transformation into market-based economic systems in East-Central Europe (ECE). Privatisation of all economic sectors (i.e. industry, agriculture, services) and the development of the private sector in the economy was the central element of all economic ‘transition’ plans. According to the liberal view, the ‘tra…
Transformation of the Central and East European Passenger Car Industry: Selective Peripheral Integration through Foreign Direct Investment
The Central and East European (CEE) passenger car industry underwent major transformations through foreign direct investment (FDI) in the 1990s. The author demonstrates that the effects of FDI on the passenger car industry have been profound, but geographically uneven. To understand the different regional and local strategies of foreign car producers better, the author introduces a classification of FDI in the passenger car industry based on the …
Transformation of the Czech Automotive Components Industry Through Foreign Direct Investment
This paper traces the profound restructuring of the Czech automotive components industry during the 1990s and early 2000s through foreign direct investment (FDI), and the integration of Czech-based suppliers into European and global automotive supplier networks. The magnitude of change is highlighted by an initial characterization of the Czechoslovak state socialist automotive components industry prior to restructuring. The paper then focuses on …
Regional Development Implications of Foreign Direct Investment in Central Europe
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been accorded a central role in the post-communist economic transformation of Central and Eastern Europe. This paper examines the regional effects of FDI in Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in the 1990s. It challenges uncritical views of FDI and its role in regional economic transformations by considering its potentially adverse effects for regional economic development, such as the…
Environmental Pasts/Environmental Futures in Post-Socialist Europe
This contribution focuses on the limits of European Union programmes and accession practices on environmental policies and performance in Central and Eastern Europe. In particular, we document some of the ways in which state socialist and post-socialist environmental conditions, practices and policies are shaping, and in turn being shaped by, the path of accession and integration. We focus on the diverse and changing patterns of air, water and so…
Restructuring of the Polish Passenger Car Industry through Foreign Direct Investment
A U.S.-based geographer discusses the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Polish passenger car industry. The paper illustrates the magnitude of enterprise restructuring and changes in a significant economic sector. Using the case study approach, the author focuses on three of the largest foreign-owned passenger car makers in Poland: Fiat Auto Poland, Daewoo-FSO, and Opel Polska. He then considers FDI in the rest of the Polish automo…
Regional Restructuring of the Škoda Auto Supplier Network in the Czech Republic
This article examines the regional restructuring of the supplier base of SkodaAuto, a vehicle manufacturer in the Czech Republic (Czechia). We investigate the tiered structure of the Škoda suppliers in Czechia by classifying 232 Czech-based Škoda suppliers in three distinct tiers and comparing the differences in the distribution between the foreign-owned and domestic suppliers in these tiers.We explore the changes in the spatial distribution of t…
Industrial Upgrading Through Foreign Direct Investment in Central European Automotive Manufacturing
This article draws on the global value-chain approach to investigate industrial upgrading in the automotive industry of four Central European (CE) countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. We review post-1990 production trends and the associated changes in the geography of automobile production in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) based on inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI).To evaluate industrial upgrading, we examine the ch…
The 2008-2009 automotive industry crisis and regional unemployment in Central Europe
This paper evaluates the influence of the broadly defined automotive industry on regional increases in unemployment in the Czech Republic (Czechia) during the 2008–2009 economic crisis. Drawing on a unique database of 490 firms with 20 or more employees each and a survey of 274 firms, we employ eight indicators to explain changes in the microregional unemployment rate between August 2008 and August 2009. We also introduce and calculate the value …
Upgrading in the automotive industry: Firm-level evidence from Central Europe
Drawing on the global value chains and global production networks perspectives and using financial indicators for individual firms, we evaluate industrial upgrading of 490 Czech-based automotive firms during the period of significant inflows of foreign direct investment into the Czech automotive industry between 1998 and 2006. We consider differences among process, product and functional upgrading and the effect of government policies on upgradin…
The impact of the 2008–2009 crisis on the automotive industry: Global trends and firm-level effects in Central Europe
This article examines the impact of the 2008–2009 economic crisis on the automotive industry. The uneven nature of the crisis contributed to the gradual shift in production from traditional core areas of the global automobile industry to selected less developed economies. In this context, the paper analyses the firm-level effects of the economic crisis in the Czech and Slovak automotive industries as two examples of automotive industry peripherie…
The Internationalization of Corporate R&D and the Automotive Industry R&D of East‐Central Europe
This article examines the development of corporate research and development (R&D) in the automotive industry of East‐Central Europe (ECE) in the context of the internationalization of corporate R&D generally and the automotive industry R&D specifically. Driven by large inflows of foreign direct investment since the early 1990s, vehicle assembly and the production of automotive components grew significantly in ECE. In my study I investigated the e…
Linkages and spillovers in global production networks: Firm-level analysis of the Czech automotive industry
The aim of this article is to analyze the linkages between and spillovers from foreign-owned (foreign) to domestic-owned (domestic) firms in the Czech automotive industry. Theoretically and conceptually, our research draws on two strands of literature: spillovers, linkages and effects of foreign direct investment on domestic firms and regional economic development; and literature on global production networks, global value chains and industrial u…
Whose success? The state–foreign capital nexus and the development of the automotive industry in Slovakia
Using the case study of Slovakia, this article considers the role of the state in the rapid growth of the automotive industry in integrated peripheral markets of the global automotive industry. Although this growth has been mainly driven by the investment strategies of automotive lead firms, the state has played an important role by accommodating the strategic needs of foreign capital through neoliberal economic policies. In addition to secondary…
Value creation and value capture in the automotive industry: Empirical evidence from Czechia
This article investigates how distinct tiers of firms contribute to value creation and value capture in the automotive industry. We employ firm-level indicators to evaluate the value creation and capture of distinct supplier tiers in the Czech automotive industry, while considering differences between foreign-owned and domestic firms. Our analysis suggests that the economic effects of the automotive industry largely depend on its capital intensit…
Restructuring and internationalization of the European automotive industry
This article draws on Harvey's theory of uneven development and spatio-temporal fix to conceptualize the changing geography of the European automotive industry based on the spatial profit-seeking strategies of automotive firms. It employs the spatial concept of integrated peripheries, in order to explain the growth of the automotive industry in peripheral regions and its contemporaneous restructuring in existing locations. The empirical analysis …
Global Production Networks, Foreign Direct Investment, and Supplier Linkages in the Integrated Peripheries of the Automotive Industry
This article examines the regional development effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the integrated peripheries of the automotive industry by analyzing supplier linkages between foreign subsidiaries and domestic firms. It develops the spatial concept of integrated peripheries in core-based macroregional production networks. Conceptually, it draws on the dynamic notion of uneven development in contemporary capitalism, namely, on David Harv…
Relative positions of countries in the core-periphery structure of the European automotive industry
This article investigates the core-semiperiphery-periphery structure of the European automotive industry between 2003 and 2017 by drawing on the global value chains and global production networks perspectives and on the conceptual explanation of the spatial division of labor in transnational production networks in the automotive industry. It develops a methodology to empirically determine the relative position of countries in the core, semiperiph…
Revisiting economic geography and foreign direct investment in less developed regions
This article focuses on the long-term effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in less developed regions (LDRs). It identifies different types and mechanisms of FDI in more developed regions (MDRs) and LDRs, which lead to different regional development outcomes. It critically evaluates the most important approaches to FDI in LDRs developed in economic geography, namely the branch plant economy and truncation, new regionalism, new international …
Geopolitical Decoupling in Global Production Networks
GEOPOLITICAL DECOUPLING IN GPNs 139Iran was analyzed because it was the most sanctioned country in the world with the most stringent sanctions before 2022 (Farzanegan and Batmanghelidj 2023), and its automotive industry, which was the sixteenth largest vehicle producer in the world in 2022 (Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobile [OICA] 2023), has specifically been targeted by economic sanctions that have aimed to decouple it f…
Agile Against Lean: An Inquiry into the Production System of Hyundai Motor
This book is an essential read for those who want to understand how Hyundai Motors (HM) has grown into one of the five largest vehicle manufacturers in the world. It is an in-depth case study analy
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