New Frontiers of the Automobile Industry

Alex Covarrubias V. is Full Professor at the College of Sonora in Mexico, and Chairman of the Innovation and Labour Network of the Mexican Automobile Industry. He is a member of the Steering Committee in the Gerpisa International Network and a Research Associate of Canada’s Automotive Policy Research Centre.Sigfrido M. Ramírez Perez is a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt-Main, Germany. He is a member of the Steering Committee in the Gerpisa International Network (ENS-Cachan-Saclay), and the Scientific Committee of the Innovation and Labour Network of the Mexican Automobile Industry.

• 1. Introduction: Changing Geographies and Frontiers of the Automobile Industry; Alex Covvarubias V. and Sigfrido M. Ramírez Perez.- Part I. Developed Countries: Old Geographies and New Frontiers.- 2. Overview of the US Automotive Industry; Thomas Klier and James Rubenstein.- 3. Canada's Automotive Industry: Recession, Restructuring, and Future Prospects; Brendan Sweeney.- 4. The 2015 Volkswagen 'Diesel-Gate' and its Impact on German Carmakers; Ludger Pries and Nils Wäcken.- 5. Searching for Industrial Policy: The Long Decline of the French Automotive Industry; Tommaso Pardi.- 6. Britain's Car Industry: Policies, Positioning, and Perspectives; Dan Coffey and Carole Thornley.- 7. The Italian Automotive Industry: Between Old and New Development Factors; Guiseppe Giulio Calabrese.- 8. The Japanese Automotive Industry Since 2000: Causes and Impacts of the Growth Disparities; Stéphane Heim.- Part II. Making it to the Top: Failing from the Top.- 9. Catch-up to Lead in Korea's Automobile Industry; Young-Suk Hyun.- 10. Who Killed the Australian Automotive Industry: The Employers, Government or Trade Unions; Stephen Clibborn, Russel D. Lansbury and Chris F. Wright.- Part III. Emergent Countries: New Geographies Struggling for Trespassing Frontiers.- 11. The Automotive Industry in China: Past and Present; Frido Wenten.- 12. The Indian Automobile Industry: Technology Enablers Preparing for the Future; Biswajit Nag and Debdeep De.- 13. The Boom of the Mexican Automobile Industry: From NAFTA to USMCA; Alex Covarrubias V..- 14. The New Geography of the Automobile Industry: Trends and Challenges in Brazil; Roberto Marx, Adriana Marotti de Mello and Felipe Ferreira de Lara.- 15. Automotive Industry Dynamics in Central Europe; Robert Guzic, Bolesław Domański, and Krzysztof Gwosdz.- Part IV. Institutional Constraints on Upgrading: The Case of Vocational Education and Training Systems.- 16. Skills on Wheels: Raising Industry Involvementin Vocational Training in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary; Vera Šćepanović.- 17. Finding Skills: Strategies of Local Auto-parts Supplier Firms in Mexico and Turkey; Merve Sancak.- Part V. Conclusions.- 18. In Wrapping Up; Alex Covarrubias V. and Sigfrido M. Ramírez Perez.