Is China a Risk or an Opportunity for Europe?: An Assessment of the Automobile, Steel and Shipbuilding Sectors

ISBN-13: 9783631574744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 126 str.

Francesco Garibaldo;Philippe Morvannou;Jochen Tholen

Opis

China s industrial growth has been the unexpected event of the beginning of the 21st century owing to its impact on the entire global economy. The aim of the book is to get a common understanding of China s economic future and its consequences for Europe based on the situation in three metal sectors chosen as examples, namely steel, shipbuilding, and automotive. That assessment can then serve as a basis for describing and evaluating the importance of the factors enabling Chinese industry to be globally competitive. Finally, this research will endeavour to pinpoint the relevant issues and establish ways of internationally regulating the growth of China s metal industries, making them compatible with international standards regarding sustainable development and social responsibility."

Recenzje

"A very comprehensive book, putting forward interesting options." (European Library)

Spis treści

Contents : Francesco Garibaldo/Philippe Morvannou/Jochen Tholen: Foreword - Emmanuel Reich: Is China's Growth Sustainable? - Caroline Jacobsson: Relations between China and the European Commission - Francesco Garibaldo/Oscar Marchisio/Volker Telljohann: The Automotive Industry - Thorsten Ludwig/Jochen Tholen: Shipbuilding in China and its Impacts on European Shipbuilding - Daniela Gradinaru/ Philippe Morvannou: Steel - Caroline Jacobsson: Policy Recommendations.

O autorze

The Editors: Francesco Garibaldo is director of the Institute for Labour in Bologna (Italy). He worked for several years for trade unions, and was director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research in Rome from 1992 to 1998. He published widely in the fields of organization, governance and regional development policies, production decentralisation, and SME networking. Specific studies were carried out in the automobile, machine tools, and information technology industry. The editor is director of the international network «Regional and Local Development of Work and Labour».
Philippe Morvannou holds a doctorate in international economy from the University of Paris X and is senior consultant in a chartered accountancy company since 1984. The editor is initiator and coordinator of transnational teams for surveys carried out for the European Commission, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), and for national and European federations working on European works councils, industrial and social prospective and more recent employment, corporate responsibility, and climate change .
Jochen Tholen is the Departmental Head of the Institute for Labour and Economy at the University of Bremen. In the past five years he has managed research projects pertaining to labour relations in Europe, foreign direct investment and relocations labour market and human resource policies in Central Asia and shipbuilding in Europe within the global market and has published several books.