Dependent Growth: Foreign Investment and the Development of the Automotive Industry in East-Central Europe

• Main Author: Pavlínek, Petr (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Business.; Globalization.; Markets.; Trade.; Commerce.; Automobile industry and trade.; Economic history.; Business and Management.; Automotive Industry.; Historical Geography.; Emerging Markets/Globalization.; Economic History.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1ChChapter 1 Foreign Direct Investment and the Development of the Automotive Industry
• Chapter 2 The Impact of the 2008-2009 Crisis
• Chapter 3 Upgrading
• Chapter 4 Research and Development
• Chapter 5 Linkages and Spillovers
• Chapter 6 The State and the Development of the Automotive Industry
• Chapter 7 Conclusion. .