Transformation of the Central and East European Passenger Car Industry

Selective Peripheral Integration through Foreign Direct Investment

Bibliographic Data

ID7761429
AuthorsPetr Pavlínek (0000-0003-2799-1230, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182-0199, USA, and The Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume34
Issue9
Pages1685-1709
Publication date2002-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1068/a34263
OpenAlexW2162267372
LanguageEN
Citations received32
References cited39

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 degree of embeddedness in local economies and relationships to path dependency in the 1990s. The effects of FDI on selective peripheral integration of parts of CEE into the European car production system, as well as the role of Central Europe in the division of labour in the European passenger car industry, are also considered

Automotive industry · Business · Division of labour · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Embeddedness · Foreign direct investment · Industrial organization · International economics · International trade · Market economy · Political science · Engineering · Global Trade and Competitiveness · Global trade and economics · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition

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