Upgrading in the automotive industry: firm-level evidence from Central Europe
利用1998-2006年捷克490家汽车企业的财务数据，分析了外资涌入背景下企业在流程、产品和功能升级上的差异，以及政府政策的影响，发现企业层面的升级具有选择性。
Drawing on the global value chains and global production networks perspectives and using financial indicators for individual firms, we evaluate industrial upgrading of 490 Czech-based automotive firms during the period of significant inflows of foreign direct investment into the Czech automotive industry between 1998 and 2006. We consider differences among process, product and functional upgrading and the effect of government policies on upgrading of Czech-based automotive firms. We also evaluate the differences between the domestic- and foreign-owned automotive firms and changes in the relative position of Czechia in European automotive value chains. Despite the documented major changes in the Czech automotive industry between 1998 and 2006, the analyzed data suggest the selective nature of industrial upgrading at the firm level.