Multinationals on the periphery: DaimlerChrysler South Africa, human capital upgrading and regional economic development

Show simple item record

dc.date.accessioned 2006-03-16 en
dc.date.accessioned 2023-06-22T10:01:55Z
dc.date.available 2023-06-22T10:01:55Z
dc.date.issued 2015-08-25 en
dc.identifier.isbn 0796921318 en
dc.identifier.uri https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/multinationals-on-the-periphery en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6893
dc.description.abstract Utilising the DaimlerChrysler human resources upgrade in one of South Africa's least developed provinces as the basis, this is a well-developed case study of the relationship between human capital in host economies and international capital inflows. It describes how DaimlerChrysler upgraded human resources in its East London plant where the company manufactures the Mercedes C-Class model for export. Lorentzen explores the extent and depth of the upgrading along and beyond the automotive supply chain, and its repercussions on local education and training institutions. Finally, he analyses how foreign direct investment and local industrial development interact in the short and medium term, and hypothesises as to the possible longer-term outcomes in the absence of proper regional economic planning. en
dc.format.medium Print en
dc.publisher HSRC Press en
dc.relation.ispartofseries Education, science and skills development research programme Occcasional paper no. 2 en
dc.subject DAIMLER CHRYSLER en
dc.subject AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY en
dc.title Multinationals on the periphery: DaimlerChrysler South Africa, human capital upgrading and regional economic development en
dc.type Monograph (Book) en
dc.ProjectNumber N/A en
dc.BudgetYear 2005/06 en
dc.ResearchGroup Education, Science and Skills Development en
dc.PlaceOfPublication Cape Town en
dc.ArchiveNumber 3721 en
dc.outputnumber 2270 en
dc.bibliographictitle Lorentzen, J. (2006) Multinationals on the periphery: DaimlerChrysler South Africa, human capital upgrading and regional economic development. (Education, science and skills development research programme Occcasional paper no. 2). Cape Town: HSRC Press. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6893 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6893 en
dc.publicationyear 2006 en
dc.contributor.author1 Lorentzen, J. en


Files in this item

Files Size Format View

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record