Regionalisation or Globalisation of Automotive Production Networks? Lessons from Import Patterns of Four European Countries

FRIGANT, Vincent; ZUMPE, Martin

doi:10.1111/grow.12207

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FRIGANT, Vincent

Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée [GREThA]

ZUMPE, Martin

Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée [GREThA]

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Growth and Change. 2017, vol. 48, n° 4, p. 661-681

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The automotive industry has long had a reputation for organising its production networks on a macro-regional scale. However, over the 2000–2012 time span, extended vertical disintegration of both carmakers and mega-suppliers, and the 2008–2009 trade collapse suggest that this geographical organisation pattern could have weakened, giving way to a genuine globalisation of auto-parts trade. This paper first reviews arguments likely to explain why automotive production networks are multi-scalar, ranging from local to global. Empirical analysis of international auto-parts trade data from Germany, France, UK, and Spain suggests that there has been little progression in globalisation of production networks. General data features can be best explained as follows: 1) the auto-parts import level of a given country is mainly driven by its automobile production level, and by the degree of presence of foreign headquartered carmakers; and 2) the breakdown of imports into procurement flows from near-distant and far-distant countries is mainly driven by the degree of presence of carmakers headquartered in far-distant countries. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc< Réduire

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Empirical analysis

Globalization

Regionalization

Automobile industry

Industrial production

Trade

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Europe

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