Iran auto : building a global industry in an Islamic state / Darius Mehri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mehri, Darius, author.

Series:

Structural analysis in the social sciences.

Structural analysis in the social sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automobile industry and trade--Iran.

Automobile industry and trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 183 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Since the revolution of 1979, scholars have portrayed the Islamic State's industrial development capacity in a negative light. Global isolation, incoherent economic planning, and predatory Islamic institutions are often cited as the reasons for lackluster development. In Iran Auto: Building a Global Industry in an Islamic State, Darius Mehri shows how this characterization is misguided. Today, Iran has one of the world's largest automobile industries with national technical capacity. Previous studies ignore the consequences of three decades of Iran's capacity for successful industrialization and changes in global technology transfer that allow countries, even ones isolated from formal global institutions, to build an automobile industry. Mehri shows how industrial nationalists in Iran constructed a network of politically effective relationships to open up space for successful local industrial development, and then tapped into a set of important global linkages to create an industry with high local manufacturing content. This book will open up a new line of inquiry into how countries in the global south can develop a successful national automobile industry without the need to conform to global economic institutions.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-77206-3

1-316-77392-2

1-316-77423-6

1-316-77454-6

1-316-77578-X

1-316-76156-8

1-316-77485-6