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Gastrow, M. (2010) Engaging the industry: innovation in South Africa's motor manufacturing sector. HSRC Review. 8(4):22-23.
Automotive manufacturing is South Africa's largest manufacturing sector and contributes substantially to our GDP and exports. Since 1995 the sector has been integrated into global value chains, and has had to become more productive, more competitive, and more technologically intensive. MICHAEL GASTROW studies the factors that determine competitiveness in this sector.
Gastrow, M. (2009) Trouble and chance in the motor industry. HSRC Review. 7(1):21-22.
The word 'crisis', when written in Chinese, is composed of two characters: one representing danger and the other representing opportunity. Whereas the South African automotive manufacturing industry is staggering under the impact of the global economic crisis that has nearly bankrupted the world's largest automotive companies, there might also be some opportunities.
Lorentzen, J., Robbins, G. & Barnes, J. (2007) The Durban auto cluster: global competition, collective efficiency and local development. In: Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, B. & McCormick, D. (eds). Industrial clusters and innovation systems in Africa: institutions, markets and policy. Tokyo: United Nations University Press. 189-210.
Vass, J.R. (2003) A review of the South African automobile assembly and component manufacturing Sector in the context of HIV/Aids. (Client report: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, AusAID, DFID and USAID, August 2003).