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Strategic Response to COVID-Crisis in the Automotive Industry: Comparing European and Global Approaches

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • start year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Prof Dr Martin Krzywdzinski

  • Research Location

    Germany, France
    …

  • Lead Research Institution

    Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Economic impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations 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.