Emerging Auto Industries in a World of Global Value Chains

This book provides a comprehensive overview of automotive industry development in emerging countries through the lens of global value chains. Over the past two decades, automobile production increasingly shifted to emerging economies, reconfiguring the global auto industry significantly. This volume traces this shift to illustrate industrial development dynamics, focusing on new players, their industrial strategies and on structural characteristics of these emerging markets. The volume’s first part is devoted to the theoretical analysis of industrial development issues affecting automotive industrialisation, including institutions, business strategies, technological change and labour regimes. The second part collects a range of country cases illustrating different automotive industrialisation trajectories. These include better-known countries as well as still underexplored cases across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. This book will provide valuable reading to those researching globalisation and emerging countries, their comparative industrialisation, and the intersection of government policies and business strategy, specifically concerning the automotive industry. Lorenza Monaco (Phd SOAS, London) is a Researcher at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London, UK. She is also Senior Research Associate at SarchI Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and part of GERPISA. She works on the political economy of industrial development in the Global South, with a focus on the automotive industry. Martin Schröder is Associate Professor at the College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, and Visiting Researcher at the Research Institute of Automobile and Parts Industries, Waseda University, Japan. His research interests are regional economic integration in ASEAN, the political economy of the automotive industry, and digitalisation in the automotive industry.