The paper analyses how carmakers integrate the Southern America Cone into their worldwide strategies: As a local emerging market? As a source for production and exports towards industrialised countries? As a source for design and export to other emerging markets? The discussion about...

Economic relations and competition process between the EU and Turkey has been increasingly accelerated with the customs union agreement in 1996. Consequently, this acceleration process has affected the industrial sector generally, as well as automotive sector, specifically. Since Turkey’s...

This paper evaluates whether a general shift in trade patterns towards East Asian markets has occurred in ASEAN automotive exports. It also examines whether ASEAN countries experienced export gains or lost their market share in their respective markets. Using trade data from PCTAS, the paper...

This paper analyzes the modularization in the world auto industry. The modularization in the industry has involved architectural changes in product, production, and supplier systems with each region (Japan, Europe and the U.S.A.) emphasizing different purposes and aspects. As an attempt to...

SWAIN A. (1998) Governing the workplace: the workplace and regional development implications of automotive direct foreign investment in Hungary, Reg. Studies 32, 653-671. This paper examines the connections that exist between the workplace implications of automotive foreign direct investment in...

This paper investigates the changes taking places in the automotive industry in the English West Midlands. For over a century this region has been the heartland of car production in the UK, but over recent decades the volume side of the trade has been in serious decline, leading to increasing...

Automotive industry is a very important economic sector that is highly responsive to changes in the world economy. The fuel price is the biggest enemy of car manufacturers. This is a compared analysis between Europe and Romania regarding new car registrations.

The Japanese cars are known for their reliability, small purchase prices, low maintenance costs and high fabrication quality. Will the Romanian market show the same attitude as the rest of the European countries regarding the Japanese cars.

This paper examines the link between fuel prices and sales of cars and trucks. U.S. automakers have long denied that such a link exists. One source of this false belief is an obsession with the crude count of units sold, equating Hummers with Minis. Another source is the conventional...

The paper proposes a comparative analysis of the development of the automotive industry in Morocco and Tunisia. In its first part, it analyses the convergence in the forms of international integration, oriented towards a subcontracting towards European Union, which leads to competition and also...