Article d'un acte du Gerpisa
Mercosur's Place in Carmakers' Internationalisation Strategies
The present paper details the way in which automobile multinationals have integrated Mercosur into their internationalisation strategy by focusing on four questions: Which vehicle models are being manufactured and marketed in this region? What is the region’s role in designing automobile products? How are production activities organised here? Do they indicate a Mercosur-driven regional integration schema?
The Creation of Local Suppliers within Global Production Networks: the Case of Ford Motor Company in Hermosillo, Mexico
This article is based on a case study designed to identify the presence of technological and knowledge spillovers, and the type of linkages that foreign major assemblers had with local knowledge-intensive firms within the automotive complex led by Ford Motor Company plant in Hermosillo, a city of the northern border state of Sonora, in Mexico.
The Prospects for Mexico in the North American Automotive Industry: A Global Value Chain Perspective
This paper considers the prospects for Mexico’s automotive industry as it has evolved, especially since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, in the context of these nested and highly dynamic global and regional value chains. We find that the fate of an industry in a small, regionally embedded country like Mexico is tied to factors that lie largely outside the control of the state or of local firms.
Ironically, the flagging prospects of the Big 3 automakers have created more risks for Mexico and Canada than it has for the United States.
Introduction
Conclusion: No European Model is Emerging
The European Socio-Economic Models of a Knowledge-Based Society: Synthesis and Policy Implication
ESEMK project considered initially four different types of socio-economic model (or social system of innovation and production) in Europe on the basis of the typology developed in Amable (2003): market-based economies, socio-democratic
economies, continental Europe and Southern European capitalism. Such a typology is accepted by a growing numbers of observers (for example Sapir, 2006, Giddens, 2006) even if they refer mainly to Esping-Andersen's work on the three worlds of welfare capitalism (Esping-Andersen, 1990) to which a fourth configuration, Southern Europe, had been added.
Considering this diversity of capitalism within EU, the aim of ESEMK project was to propose a more adapted analysis of the socio-economic development models in Europe, the transformations affecting them, both at the macro and at the micro/meso –levels; to assess the chances of emergence of a specific European socio-economic model distinct from the models existing in other developed regions of the world and to analyse how it can represent an original path towards the
knowledge-based society. This final report synthesises the ESEMK main findings presented in detail in previous thematic work packages’ reports (Deliverables D3 to D6) and discusses their policy implications, mainly in perspective of the Lisbon
agenda.
Part 1 will summarise our integrated analytical framework which articulates the macro-level (socio-economic model), the meso-level (sector or industry) and the micro-level (productive models). Using these analytical tools, Part 2 discusses current institutional changes occurring in Europe, their impacts on socioeconomic development models and their policy implications, on three main institutional areas: product market regulation, labour market, and financial system. We’ll analyse how transformations taking place at the macro/societal level, at the meso/industry level and at the micro/company level interact.
Finally, we conclude that these modifications do not lead, neither to the emergence of a specific European model exhibiting distinct characteristics (social protection, corporate governance…), neither to convergence towards a market-based model,
discussing the Lisbon agenda within this theoretical framework.
The European Socio-Economic Models of a Knowledge-Based Society: Main Findings and Conclusion
