Strategic Response to COVID-Crisis in the Automotive Industry: Comparing European and Global Approaches
- Funded by Volkswagen Stiftung
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Key facts
Disease
COVID-19Start & end year
2020Funder
Volkswagen StiftungPrincipal Investigator
Prof Dr Martin KrzywdzinskiResearch Location
Germany, France…Lead Research Institution
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbHResearch Priority Alignment
N/A
Research Category
Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measuresResearch Subcategory
Economic impactsSpecial Interest Tags
N/AStudy Type
Non-ClinicalClinical Trial Details
N/ABroad Policy Alignment
PendingAge Group
Not ApplicableVulnerable Population
Not applicableOccupations of Interest
Not applicable
Abstract
This project compares how firms and governments of five countries - Germany, France, the United States, Japan, and China - strategically respond to the COVID-crisis in the car industry. Our focus is the pandemic's long-term impact on two ongoing sectoral transformations: (1) the changing international division of labor between high- and low-wage countries, and (2) the transition to electromobility. We aim to develop policy-relevant knowledge and a cross-national perspective on the changing value chains, business-government relations, and industrial policy agendas in the automotive industry as one of the key sectors of the global economy.