The automotive sector is characterised by a relatively low trade/sales ratio. While the
production of most automotive producers in the world is spread over various countries in the …

The paper opens by mapping the changes in the global auto industry in the 1990s, showing
how the rapid growth in sales and production between 1990 and 1997 came largely from the …

The automobile industry is one of the biggest industrial sectors in the world. If one includes
the economic activities up-and downstream of actual manufacturing the sector's global value …

Executive summary In the 1980s the European Automobile Industry faced a period of
dramatic restructuring due to the downturn in car sales after the 1979 oil shock. This crisis of …

Globalization of Markets Compels Changes in the Value Addition Chain of the Automotive
Industry Page 1 ==========================~PRODUCAo Globalization of Markets …

This paper provides a brief survey of the international automotive industry and its leading
transnational companies. Data on recent trends in production and trade are reviewed and …

The automotive industry is undergoing a radical transformation. New social, technological,
environmental and geopolitical challenges are redefining the characteristics of a saturated …

The severe drop in demand for European cars in 1993 forced the auto industry to face
underlying structural problems that had been growing for several years: increasing capacity …

Trade magazines 1 have been rife with predictions that new countries are making a grand
entrance onto the automotive industry's global stage, and this is also a recurring theme in …

The chapter presents a broad picture of the European automotive industry and seeks to
determine how competitive it is internationally and which are the sources of its …