Abstract
Using a case study of Slovakia, this chapter considers the role of the state in the rapid growth of the automotive industry in East-Central Europe. Although this growth has been mainly driven by the investment strategies of automotive lead firms, the state has played an important role by accommodating the strategic needs of foreign capital through neoliberal economic policies. In addition to secondary sources, the empirical research is based on a 2010 survey of 299 Slovak-based automotive firms with a response rate of 44% and on 50 on-site firm-level interviews conducted between 2011 and 2015. The analysis draws upon approaches in Economic Geography, International Political Economy and upon Global Value Chains and Global Production Networks perspectives to argue that the successful development of the automotive industry in Slovakia and East-Central Europe as a whole has been achieved at the expense of its overwhelming dependence on foreign capital and corporate capture. The chapter considers the potential consequences of dependent industrial development for the domestic automotive industry and its position in the international division of labor.
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