Title: Structuring new automotive industries, restructuring old automotive industries and the new geopolitics of the global automotive sector

Authors: Bernard Jullien; Tommaso Pardi

Addresses: Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Bât Laplace, 61, Avenue du Président Wilson, 94235 Cachan cedex, France ' Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Bât Laplace, 61, Avenue du Président Wilson, 94235 Cachan cedex, France

Abstract: The paper considers how the process of structuring new automotive industries in emerging countries and restructuring old automotive industries in the TRIAD is transforming the product policies, productive organisations and employment relationships of global carmakers and redesigning the global and local geography of the design and production of cars. Following the review of the main trends implied by this evolution, it discusses the pertinence of the 'productive models' approach developed by the Gerpisa international network to frame and investigate these new issues. In conclusion, it stresses the radical novelty of the double process of global structuring and restructuring new and old automotive industries and proposes an updated set of analytical tools and research questions to fully grasp its multiple and far-reaching implications.

Keywords: Gerpisa; productive models; automotive restructuring; automotive structuring; automobile industry; BRIC countries; Brazil; Russia; India; China; TRIAD; industrial restructuring; public policy; sustainable development; sustainability; relocation; low carbon vehicles; employment relationship; emerging markets; developing countries; international networks; old industries; new industries; global restructuring; global structuring.

DOI: 10.1504/IJATM.2013.053000

International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, 2013 Vol.13 No.2, pp.96 - 113

Published online: 28 Nov 2013 *

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