The New European Automobile Industry

Author : Michael Rawlinson,Peter Wells
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349235261

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The New European Automobile Industry by Michael Rawlinson,Peter Wells Pdf

The New European Automobile Industry is about the struggle for survival going on among the assembler and components firms which constitute the European automobile industry. It describes and explains the competitive, structural, organisational and technological changes currently sweeping the industry and outlines the spatial and economic effects of those changes. The empirical core of the book is a study of a number of technology fields in automobile components. These sections draw on the latest research carried out by the authors in Europe through which they evaluate the extent to which lean production techniques have permeated the vehicle assemblers and components industry.

Author : Dr. Peter Wells,Michael Rawlinson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0312122381

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The New European Automobile Industry by Dr. Peter Wells,Michael Rawlinson Pdf

This book is about the struggle for survival going on among the assembler and components firms which constitute the European automobile industry. It describes and explains the competitive, structural, organisational and technological changes currently sweeping the industry and outlines the spatial and economic effects of those changes.

Author : Johannes Edelhoff
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783640349951

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The European Automobile Industry by Johannes Edelhoff Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Economic Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Lisbon, course: Industriegeographie, Geografia de Industria, language: English, abstract: Wirtschaftsgeographie, Arbeit über geographische Verteilung und Dynamik sowie den Einfluss von betriebswirtschaftlichen Organisation- und Produktionsformen auf die geographische Verteilung der Automobilindustrie. Blick auf portugiesische Automobilindustrie

Author : William A. Maloney,Andrew McLaughlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134829255

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The European Automobile Industry by William A. Maloney,Andrew McLaughlin Pdf

This book presents an analysis of some of the changes that have transformed the automobile industry in the last thirty years illustrating some of the most significant consequences of globalization. Focusing on the response of Europe's policy makers, it analyzes government-industry relations at both national and transnational levels, demonstrating how national policy instruments have been eroded by regional, political and economic integration. There has been a significant and irreversible shift in the locus of decision-making power from nation states to the regional level in the automobile sector.

Author : Johannes Edelhoff
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640349906

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The European Automobile Industry by Johannes Edelhoff Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Economic Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Lisbon, course: Industriegeographie, Geografia de Industria, language: English, abstract: Wirtschaftsgeographie, Arbeit ber geographische Verteilung und Dynamik sowie den Einfluss von betriebswirtschaftlichen Organisation- und Produktionsformen auf die geographische Verteilung der Automobilindustrie. Blick auf portugiesische Automobilindustrie

Author : Ray Hudson,Eike W. Schamp,A. Amin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556023527948

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Towards a New Map of Automobile Manufacturing in Europe? by Ray Hudson,Eike W. Schamp,A. Amin Pdf

This book is the product of four years of collaborative work within the framework of the European Science Foundation's Regional and Urban Restructuring in Europe (RURE) programme. With one exception, all of the chapters have been prepared by participants in RURE - the exception being that commissioned from Conti and Enrietti on Fiat and Italy to provide a fuller coverage of changes in the main automobile producing companies and countries of Europe. A - perhaps the - central theme around which the RURE programme was conceived is that the restructuring of the production system lies at the heart of the changing map of Europe. Equally, it continues to be the case that the automobile industry lies at the cutting edge of the search for viable new models of production. Some eighty years ago the automobile industry occupied a pivotal position in the transition from craft to mass production - indeed "Fordism" came to denote not just a particular micro-economic model of production organisation in the factory but a macro-scale model of economic development, characterized by a particular pattern of relations between mass production, mass consumption and national state regulation. From the late 1960s, however, it became increasingly clear that Fordism as a macro-scale model of advanced capitalist development was reaching its limits.

Author : Roland Francis Stephen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472023233

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Vehicle of Influence by Roland Francis Stephen Pdf

This study examines a crucial period in European integration, ending in the early 1990s, when significant progress was made towards the dream of a unified European market. It shows how European automakers were part of these changes and how their influence within the institutions of the European Union (EU) yielded a wide range of policy compromises governing a single European car market. The book begins by reviewing the history of the EU and the logic of regional free trade, and goes on to develop a political explanation for the kinds of changes that actually occurred. The author argues that European automakers enjoyed a privileged place in the political arena, albeit one much transformed by the new institutions of the EU. Therefore, these firms often significantly influenced regional policy outcomes. The argument is applied to policymaking in the important areas of environmental regulation, trade, subsidies, and anti-trust regulation. This work lies at the intersection of business, economics, and political science and is of interest to both experts and non-specialists with an interest in the tremendous economic and political changes brought about by the creation of a united Europe and, more generally, by the worldwide process of regional economic integration. Academics, professionals, businessmen, and leaders in government all have something to learn from the way in which firms and governments combined to build the largest car market in the world. Roland Stephen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, North Carolina State University.

Author : A. J. Jacobs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030174316

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The Automotive Industry and European Integration by A. J. Jacobs Pdf

This book chronicles the divergent growth trends in car production in Belgium and Spain. It delves into how European integration, high wages, and the demise of GM and Ford led to plant closings in Belgium. Next, it investigates how lower wages and the expansion strategies of Western European automakers stimulated expansion in the Spanish auto industry. Finally, it offers three alternate scenarios regarding how further EU expansion and Brexit may potentially reshape the geographic footprint of European car production over the next ten years. In sum, this book utilizes history to help expand the knowledge of scholars and policymakers regarding how European integration and Brexit may impact future auto industry investment for all EU nations.

Author : James Michael Laux
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : NWU:35556020340220

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The European Automobile Industry by James Michael Laux Pdf

Laux carefully examines how European factory owners emulated American success in production and sales between the wars, how the postwar market boom chipped away at American dominance of the industry, and how Japanese models in turn began to cut into the world market in the competitive 1980s. In this incisive overview, Laux determines that Europe's most successful automaking firms were generally those which identified a market and offered this market a product at a reasonable price.

Author : Glenn Parry,Andrew Peter Graves
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781848002258

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Build To Order by Glenn Parry,Andrew Peter Graves Pdf

Over the past 100 years the European Automotive Industry has been repeatedly challenged by best practice. First by the United States, through the development of ‘mass production’ pioneered by Henry Ford and more recently by ‘lean production techniques’ as practised by the leading Japanese producers, particularly Toyota. It has consistently risen to these challenges and has shown it can compete and even outperform its competitors with world-class products. However, the European - dustry is now faced with growing competition and growth from new emerging low-cost countries and needs to re-define its competitive advantage to remain at the forefront of the sector. Automotive growth is driven by two factors, new m- kets and new technologies. Global competition is increasing, with technology and product differentiation becoming the most important sales factors, but with c- tinued cost pressure. Within the market the winners will be more profitable and the losers will disappear. The Automotive Industry makes a significant contribution to the socio-economic fabric of the European Union. Manufacturing output represents €700 billion and research and development spending €24 billion. European automotive suppliers number 5000 member companies and represent 5 million employees and generate €500 billion in revenues. These are significant figures that generate wealth and high value employment within the EU. European firms must consistently improve their competitive position to ensure that the industry does not migrate to growing new markets.

Author : William A. Maloney,Andrew McLaughlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134829262

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The European Automobile Industry by William A. Maloney,Andrew McLaughlin Pdf

This book presents an analysis of some of the changes that have transformed the automobile industry in the last thirty years illustrating some of the most significant consequences of globalization. Focusing on the response of Europe's policy makers, it analyzes government-industry relations at both national and transnational levels, demonstrating how national policy instruments have been eroded by regional, political and economic integration. There has been a significant and irreversible shift in the locus of decision-making power from nation states to the regional level in the automobile sect.

Author : Masahiko Iguchi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319175003

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Divergence and Convergence of Automobile Fuel Economy Regulations by Masahiko Iguchi Pdf

This book reveals the mechanisms underlying the convergence of car fuel economy regulations in Europe, Japan and the US by drawing upon a constructivist theory of International Relations and law that focuses on business competition and environmental regulations. It offers new understanding of the topic of cars and an issue of climate change, discussing the emerging phenomenon of convergence of fuel economy regulations; addressing the role of business actors in pushing for climate change action; proposing the new model of agency with and beyond states; and providing insightful case studies from Europe, Japan and the US. The opening chapter reviews the automobile industry and global climate change, providing a background for the discussion to follow. Chapter 2, Business Actors and Global Environmental Governance, grounds the discussion in the field of environmental governance. The third chapter is a case study examining the construction and timing of the European Union's climate policies for automobile CO2 emissions, discussing the underlying factors and the actors influencing the policies. The following chapter argues that Japan adopted its stringent fuel economy regulations primarily because of industry competitiveness, motivated by stringent environmental regulations in export markets and encouraged by a tradition of ‘co-regulation’ and ‘corporatism’ to enhance the regulations. Chapter 5 asks why the US, the first country to introduce fuel economy regulations, spent two decades in regulatory stagnation, and discusses how recent US fuel economy regulations came to converge with Japanese and European standards. Chapter 6 compares, contrasts and analyzes fuel economy regulations among the three case studies and identifies policy implications for the future climate governance for 2015 and beyond. The final chapter explores applicability of the ‘agency with and beyond the state’ model to other sectors and to climate governance as a whole.

Author : Ray Hudson,Eike W. Schamp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642794726

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Towards a New Map of Automobile Manufacturing in Europe? by Ray Hudson,Eike W. Schamp Pdf

This book is the product of four years of collaborative work within the framework of the European Science Foundation's Regional and Urban Restructuring in Europe (RURE) programme. With one exception, all of the chapters have been prepared by participants in RURE - the exception being that commissioned from Conti and Enrietti on Fiat and Italy to provide a fuller coverage of changes in the main automobile producing companies and countries of Europe. A - perhaps the - central theme around which the RURE programme was conceived is that the restructuring of the production system lies at the heart of the changing map of Europe. Equally, it continues to be the case that the automobile industry lies at the cutting edge of the search for viable new models of production. Some eighty years ago the automobile industry occupied a pivotal position in the transition from craft to mass production - indeed "Fordism" came to denote not just a particular micro-economic model of production organisation in the factory but a macro-scale model of economic development, characterized by a particular pattern of relations between mass production, mass consumption and national state regulation. From the late 1960s, however, it became increasingly clear that Fordism as a macro-scale model of advanced capitalist development was reaching its limits.

Author : European Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X004122402

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Examination of Current and Future Excess Capacity in the European Automobile Industry by European Commission Pdf

Author : Ray Hudson,Eike W. Schamp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642794711

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Towards a New Map of Automobile Manufacturing in Europe? by Ray Hudson,Eike W. Schamp Pdf

This book is the product of four years of collaborative work within the framework of the European Science Foundation's Regional and Urban Restructuring in Europe (RURE) programme. With one exception, all of the chapters have been prepared by participants in RURE - the exception being that commissioned from Conti and Enrietti on Fiat and Italy to provide a fuller coverage of changes in the main automobile producing companies and countries of Europe. A - perhaps the - central theme around which the RURE programme was conceived is that the restructuring of the production system lies at the heart of the changing map of Europe. Equally, it continues to be the case that the automobile industry lies at the cutting edge of the search for viable new models of production. Some eighty years ago the automobile industry occupied a pivotal position in the transition from craft to mass production - indeed "Fordism" came to denote not just a particular micro-economic model of production organisation in the factory but a macro-scale model of economic development, characterized by a particular pattern of relations between mass production, mass consumption and national state regulation. From the late 1960s, however, it became increasingly clear that Fordism as a macro-scale model of advanced capitalist development was reaching its limits.