Automotive FDI in Emerging Europe

A. J. Jacobs is Associate Professor at East Carolina University’s Department of Sociology, USA. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Belgium, and with the Faculty of Business Administration at Hosei University, Japan. Jacobs has published more than 30 scholarly articles, chapters, and books on regional development issues in North America, Europe, and East Asia, focusing upon the automotive industry, including The ‘New Domestic’ Automakers in the U.S. and Canada: History, Impacts, and Prospects (2016).

• 1. Introduction and Overview.- 2. Two Blocs to One Market: The Shift East of Auto Production in Post-Socialist Europe.- 3. Foreign Passenger Car Plants in Post-Socialist Poland.- 4. Passenger Car Plants Before and After the Former East Germany.- 5. Foreign Carmakers in Post-Socialist Czechia.- 6. Foreign Automakers in Independent Slovakia.- 7. Foreign Car Plants in Post-Socialist Hungary.- 8. The Next Ring: The Emerging Southeast Europe Auto Zone.- 9. Conclusions and Future Auto FDI Prospects for CE and SEE Nations.