In Deutschland besteht seit längerem die Angst, dass Direktinvestitionen nach Mittel- und Osteuropa mit einem „Arbeitsplatzexport“ in diese Region verbunden sind. Entscheidend für negative Auswirkungen ist das der Direktinvestition zugrunde liegende Motiv. Wenn ein Motivwandel von der...

Anhand eines Vergleichs von russischen und chinesischen Automobilwerken untersucht das Buch, wie betriebliche Sozialordnungen in autoritären Gesellschaften funktionieren und wie die Legitimität der betrieblichen Regeln gesichert wird.Untersucht werden Mechanismen der Sozialisation der...

Auto manufacturing holds the promise of employing many young Indians in relatively well-paid, high-skill employment, but this promise is threatened by the industry's role as a site of immense conflict in recent years. This book asks: how do we explain this conflict? What are the implications of...

International negotiations have become an important feature of the world trading system, but very few scholars have attempted to analyse this process. Using case studies in four areas - culture, textiles and apparel, autos, and pharmaceuticals - negotiated in the North American Free Trade...

This book offers a critical analysis of recent developments in the automotive industry of East-Central Europe (ECE). Economists, industry specialists and national governments have considered the rapid development of the automotive industry in ECE in the past twenty years an unqualified success....

This book examines the dramatic increase in automotive assembly plants in the former Socialist Central European (CE) nations of Czechia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia from 1989 onwards. Enticed by relatively lower-wage labour and significant government incentives, the world’s...