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Europe’s Auto Industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2025

Petr Pavlínek
Petr Pavlínek
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska, Omaha and Charles University, Prague
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Europe's Auto Industry
Global Production Networks and Spatial Change
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Europe’s Auto Industry

Drawing on the analytical approaches of global production networks, global value chains, and spatial divisions of labor, this book investigates the changing automotive industry in Europe. Petr Pavlínek, a leading scholar of the automotive industry, focuses on its restructuring and geographic reorganization since the early 1990s to analyze the driving forces and regional development effects of these changes. Pavlínek explains the spatial profit-seeking strategies of large automotive firms and their role in the restructuring and increasing internationalization of Europe’s automotive industry through foreign direct investment. He also considers how rapid growth in eastern Europe has affected western Europe, evaluates the relative position of countries in the European automotive industry, and examines the transition to the production of electric vehicles in eastern Europe. Europe’s Auto Industry features original data, concepts and methods that may be applied in other disciplines. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Petr Pavlínek is Professor of Geography at the University of Nebraska Omaha and Charles University. His previous books include Economic Restructuring and Local Environmental Management in the Czech Republic (1997), Environmental Transitions: Transformation and Ecological Defence in Central and Eastern Europe (with John Pickles, 2000), A Successful Transformation? Restructuring of the Czech Automobile Industry (2008) and Dependent Growth: Foreign Investment and the Development of the Automotive Industry in East-Central Europe (2017).

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