Over the past forty years, state/provincial and local governments in the United States and
Canada have provided foreign automakers with approximately $4.80 billion in incentives in …

In 1962, South Korea assembled just 1,100 new automobiles. By 1996, this total had soared
to 2,812,714. What explains this remarkable growth? The answer is complex, and involves a …

This article investigates why Korean auto assembly firms introduced “lean production
systems” and chose greenfield locations as their new flexible production sites in the 1990s. I …

In this paper I examine the circumstances under which proximity is important to assemblers
and suppliers in the South Korean auto industry. In order to understand suppliers' locational …

Abstract This chapter,“Hyundai Motor Part I: From Construction to Cars, Beginnings to 1987,”
is the first of two chapters on Korea's largest automaker, Hyundai Motor. It begins with two …

Abstract “Hyundai Motor: Asian Crisis through Global Recession, 1997–2010,” moves
forward from Volume 1, Chapter 7 and chronicles Hyundai Motor Company's (HMC) …

This chapter offers a brief history of DMC from just prior to the 1997–1998 Asian Crisis until
GM's takeover in 2002. It begins with a section that supplies the reader with some …

This chapter examines the impact of globalisation on urban and regional development by
analysing the politics of exclusion in the restructuring of the South Korean motor vehicle …

Part II begins with Chapter 5,“Daewoo, Shinjin and the Forerunners of GM Korea:
Beginnings to 1996.” The first of six case-study essays, this chapter outlines the history of …

Abstract This chapter,“The Origins of Samsung Motors: Beginnings to 1996,” chronicles the
trials and tribulations of Samsung Motors, beginning with a brief review of the rise to the top …