Upgrading in the automotive industry: firm-level evidence from Central Europe

By P. Pavlínek, J. Ženka. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Jirí Blazek
2. P. Žížalová
3. P. Pavlínek

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Jirí Blazek
2. P. Žížalová
3. P. Pavlínek

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1. P. Žížalová
2. Jirí Blazek
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Citations in the corpus

• Towards a typology of repositioning strategies of GVC/GPN suppliers: the case of functional upgrading and downgrading (2016, background): “An example of this type of chain upgrading would be the case of the Škoda car manufacturer, which, over the last 20 years, has succeeded in moving from a low-end market segment to a mid-range market (Pavlı́nek and Ženka, 2011).”
• Linkages and spillovers in global production networks: firm-level analysis of the Czech automotive industry (2016, background): “These enormous price pressures contribute to process upgrading but make it extremely difficult for automotive suppliers to engage in functional upgrading (Pavlı́nek and Ženka, 2011).”
• Global Production Networks, Foreign Direct Investment, and Supplier Linkages in the Integrated Peripheries of the Automotive Industry (2018, background): “…firms in captive production networks, which may lock domestic firms into simple, low value-added activities and undermine the potential of domestic suppliers to benefit from supplier linkages (UNCTAD 2001; Gereffi, Humphrey, and Sturgeon 2005; Pavlínek and Ženka 2011; Pavlínek and Žížalová 2016).”
• Environmental Regulation and the Cross-Border Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from Automobile Patents (2015, unknown): “…industry herein components, systems and modules are produced and ssembled across a number of different countries (Dicken, 2011). t the apex of what Pavlínekt and Źenka (2009) characterise as a roducer-driven network are large assembly firms (i.e. final proucers) which exercise considerable power…”
• The Internationalization of Corporate R&D and the Automotive Industry R&D of East-Central Europe (2012, background): “In turn, upgrading at Škoda Auto and its suppliers (Pavlínek and Ženka 2011) has had important consequences for regional development and for the Czech economy as a whole.”