Usine du futur

The current restructuring of the global automotive industry is being driven by extremely rapid changes in the global geography of related production, marketing and (increasingly) design activities. The changes have had variable effects at different stages of the value chain; for different companies; and in different countries or regions worldwide.
 
Fundamentally, they all involve interlinked processes corresponding to the structuring of new automotive industries that are more or less autonomous in comparison with their predecessors – as well as restructuring actions that affect the older automotive industries and are uneven both in terms of their form and magnitude. As part of the new GERPISA International Research programme that is currently being developed and to prepare the opening of GERPISA’s 20th International Conference, we would like to invite social science researchers with an interest in the automotive industry to reflect upon this dual structuring/restructuring process.