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Between Globalisation and Regionalisation: What is the Future of the Motor Industry?

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Global Strategies and Local Realities

Abstract

If the challenge facing automobile producers in the 1980s was how to change their industrial model, that of the 1990s has been how to reorganise internationally. Of course, internationalisation has been one of the industry’s characteristics since its inception, and international trade has accounted for a higher proportion of sales than it does today at several periods in the past (Bardou et al. 1982). Globalisation has neither been achieved nor is it irreversible and unavoidable.

Translation by Sybil H. Mair.

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  1. Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

    John Humphrey

  2. Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Lyon, France

    Yveline Lecler

  3. Production Engineering Department, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, Brazil

    Mario Sergio Salerno

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Freyssenet, M., Lung, Y. (2000). Between Globalisation and Regionalisation: What is the Future of the Motor Industry?. In: Humphrey, J., Lecler, Y., Salerno, M.S. (eds) Global Strategies and Local Realities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977712_4

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