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Two Blocs to One Market: The Shift East of Auto Production in Post-Socialist Europe

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This brief chapter sets the scene for the nation-specific chapters by providing a short synopsis of passenger car production in CE during the Socialist Era (1949–1989). It then provides a chronology of foreign car plant production launches in CE and SEE and a summary of car production data by nation for CE, SEE, and Western Europe. These figures are broken up into two distinct periods: 1989–2001 or Post-Socialist Phase I; and 2001–2015 or Post-Socialist Phase II.

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  1. 1.

    Georgano (2000); Havas (2000); Pavlinek (2002, 2008); Thompson (2011).

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    Pavlinek (2002, 2008); Thompson (2011).

  3. 3.

    Thompson (2011); Wolchik & Curry (2011).

  4. 4.

    Pavlinek (2002, 2008); Thompson (2011).

  5. 5.

    Pavlinek (2002, 2008); Thompson (2011).

  6. 6.

    Georgano (2000), Havas (2000), Pavlinek (2002, 2008) and Thompson (2011).

  7. 7.

    Georgano (2000); Thompson (2011).

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    Ward’s (1958–2014, 2014); OICA (1999–2016); Thompson (2011).

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    Thompson (2011); Wolchik & Curry (2011).

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    Wolchik & Curry (2011).

  11. 11.

    Myant (1993); Whitney (1993); Amsden et al. (1994); Fogel (1994); Myant et al. (1996); Wolchik & Curry (2011).

  12. 12.

    Wolchik & Curry (2011).

  13. 13.

    Tagliabue (1989); Franklin (1990); Sadler et al (1993); Havas (2000); Richet & Bourassa (2000); Pavlinek (2002, 2008); Lung (2004); Domanski & Lung (2009); Thompson (2011).

  14. 14.

    Whitney (1993).

  15. 15.

    Havas (2000); Richet & Bourassa (2000); Pavlinek (2002, 2008); Lung (2004); Domanski & Lung (2009); Jacobs (2016, 2017).

  16. 16.

    European Union (2016).

  17. 17.

    European Union (2016).

  18. 18.

    Dicken (2015); European Union (2016).

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    Pavlinek (2008, 2015); Domanski & Lung (2009); Julien & Pardi (2013); Jacobs (2016, 2017).

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Jacobs, A.J. (2017). Two Blocs to One Market: The Shift East of Auto Production in Post-Socialist Europe. In: Automotive FDI in Emerging Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40786-3_2

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