{"id":15909,"date":"2026-06-03T10:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rki.krtk.hu\/?p=15909"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:40:21","slug":"new-publication-strategic-coupling-in-the-european-global-periphery-debrecen-as-an-emerging-location-of-the-automotive-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rki.krtk.hu\/en\/new-publication-strategic-coupling-in-the-european-global-periphery-debrecen-as-an-emerging-location-of-the-automotive-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication: &#8216;Strategic coupling in the European (global?) periphery: Debrecen as an emerging location of the automotive industry&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The study \u2018Strategic coupling in the European (global?) periphery: Debrecen as an emerging location of the automotive industry\u2019, authored by <strong>Erika Nagy<\/strong>, <strong>G\u00e1bor Kozma<\/strong> and <strong>Ern\u0151 Moln\u00e1r<\/strong>, is now available <span class=\"break-words tvm-parent-container\"><span dir=\"ltr\"> in the new issue of<\/span><\/span> <em>Progress in Economic Geography<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This paper is focused on strategic coupling processes of automotive production networks in the European (semi-)periphery through the lens of the cultural political economy. Adopting the case study approach and a combined methodology (interviewing, analysis of national and local development documents, press materials and statistical data), the authors reveal<!--TgQPHd|[]--> how Hungary\u2019s second largest city, Debrecen, is emerging as a new location of the automotive industry in the intersection of the European and the Asian value chains. By analysing the processes of strategic coupling, the study grasps<!--TgQPHd|[]--> how firm (productive capital), national and local state agency are related in developing a new imaginary and how it is made hegemonic for local and national economic development. The paper unpacks how emergence of the new automotive location can be explained by the long-term location advantages of Eastern Europe and the electromobility-based industrial policy of the Hungarian government on the one hand, and the exhaustion of (human) resources in the traditional locations combined with a state policy highly prioritizing the case study city on the other. The authors<!--TgQPHd|[]--> also discuss how reindustrialisation emerged as a source of subjectivity by developing counter-narratives of this imaginary, and why unfolding social movements failed to articulate an alternative hegemonic vision.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"break-words tvm-parent-container\"><span dir=\"ltr\">The study is available online<\/span><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2949694226000106?via%3Dihub\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study \u2018Strategic coupling in the European (global?) periphery: Debrecen as an emerging location of the automotive industry\u2019, authored by Erika Nagy, G\u00e1bor Kozma and Ern\u0151 Moln\u00e1r, is now available in the new issue of Progress in Economic Geography. 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