The stagflation crisis and the European automotive industry, 1973-85

The success in coping with the stagflation crisis depended on two groups of factors. On the one hand, survival depended on assemblers’ strategies to promote economies of scale and scope, process and product innovation, related diversification, internationalisation and, sometimes, changes of ownershi...

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Autor: Catalán, Jordi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/122549
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/122549
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Indústria automobilística
Inflació
Enginyeria industrial
Crisis econòmiques
Automobile industry and trade
Inflation
Industrial engineering
Depressions
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Sumario:The success in coping with the stagflation crisis depended on two groups of factors. On the one hand, survival depended on assemblers’ strategies to promote economies of scale and scope, process and product innovation, related diversification, internationalisation and, sometimes, changes of ownership. On the other, firms benefitted from long-term path-dependent growth in their countries of origin’s industrial systems. Indeed, the main winners of the period, Toyota and Volkswagen, can rightly be seen as outstanding examples of Confucian and Rhine capitalism. However, since then, global convergence with Anglo-Saxon capitalism may have eroded some of the institutional bases of their strength.