Automotive FDI in Emerging Europe Shifting Locales in the Motor Vehicle Industry /

• Main Author: Jacobs, A. J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Business.; Business enterprises > Finance.; Production management.; Business logistics.; International business enterprises.; Automobile industry and trade.; Business and Management.; Automotive Industry.; International Business.; Production.; Logistics.; Business Finance.

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 largest a...