Pub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198860655.003.0006
Merve Sancak
This chapter examines the national institutions in Mexico that affect the Mexican auto parts suppliers’ skilling strategies, drawing from the discussions in the literature on comparative capitalisms and comparative political economy of skill formation. The chapter elaborates the national institutions in Mexico that define the training practices available to firms and influence the labour market dynamics, which then will shape firms’ training and hiring costs and form complementarities in the multilevel skill system. The chapter shows that there are three main institutional structures that complement the skill system: the vocational education and training system, labour regulations and the minimum wage structure, and firms’ location and public transportation services. The low commitment of the Mexican state in these structures has been a major factor shaping these institutions, and has resulted in arrangements that are very different from those in Turkey.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198860655.003.0008
Merve Sancak
This chapter presents the findings of the micro-level analysis on the skilling practices of the Mexican auto parts-automotive industry suppliers. It discusses how the governance structures in auto parts - automotive value chains and national institutions in Mexico affect auto parts suppliers’ strategies to find workers with skills necessary for them. It evaluates the outcomes of skilling strategies for firms and workers, which then helps to realise the high-road development prospects of Mexico. The chapter shows that the institutional complementarities of the Mexican skill system, in which the state’s involvement is low, leads to several types of skilling practices in Mexican auto parts-automotive industry firms. Such variation of skilling practices, moreover, limits the mobility of workers from disadvantaged backgrounds, creates inequalities between smaller and larger firms, and restricts smaller firms’ competitiveness in global auto parts-automotive value chains. Therefore, the chapter argues that the Mexican skill system is not likely to lead to high-road development in the country.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198860655.003.0004
Merve Sancak
This chapter studies the pressures of globalisation on suppliers and the patterns of convergence in suppliers’ skilling strategies due to these pressures. It focuses on the effects of global competition in the auto parts-automotive industry and Mexican and Turkish firms’ participation in auto parts-automotive value chains (AACs). It examines the governance structures in global AACs, the expectations from suppliers in these chains, and the lead firms’ strategies to ensure that these expectations are met. The chapter evaluates how these dynamics affect the Turkish and Mexican auto parts suppliers and their skilling strategies. The chapter shows that the governance structures in AACs indeed put pressures on suppliers in Mexico and Turkey and influence suppliers’ skilling activities both directly and indirectly. This leads to similarities regarding the skill needs of supplier firms and the organisation of shop-floor workers. However, there is no convergence towards high-performance work systems.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198860655.003.0002
Merve Sancak
This chapter presents the conceptual framework of the book and the theoretical approaches that inform the research in the book. The fields of study in this regard include labour economics focused on firm-level training and hiring practices, institutional analysis on comparative capitalisms and development, global value chain research on governance structures and supplier firms, human resource management studies on firm-level skilling practices, and the outcomes of these practices for workers and firms. The chapter first discusses the main arguments in each body of literature, and then offers explanations of the main bottlenecks of the literature. Later, it demonstrates how each body of literature is used in the book and how the bottlenecks are addressed. Last, the chapter explains the ‘cross-fertilisation’ and multilevel approach of the book.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198860655.003.0005
Merve Sancak
This chapter examines the national institutions in Turkey that influence the Turkish auto parts suppliers’ skilling strategies. It builds on the discussions in the literature on comparative capitalisms and particularly the comparative political economy of skill formation. The chapter provides a description of institutions in Turkey, which define the training practices available to firms and that shape the supply of, demand for, and mobility of workers with different skills. The chapter explains the complementarity between these institutions and the role of state involvement in them. The chapter shows that there are four main institutions that have become the macro-level complementarities of the skill system in Turkey: the vocational education and training system, labour regulations and wage institutions, firms’ location and public transportation facilities, and the compulsory military service for men. Furthermore, the chapter argues that the high state involvement in Turkey is a key factor shaping these four macro-level institutions.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198860655.003.0007
Merve Sancak
This chapter presents a micro-level analysis on Turkish firms’ skilling strategies. It discusses how the governance structures in auto parts-automotive value chains and institutional arrangements in Turkey affect Turkish suppliers’ strategies to find workers with the skills they need. It evaluates the outcomes of the skilling strategies for firms and workers, and this helps to make inferences about the Turkish skill system’s implications for the high- or low-road development prospects of the country. The chapter shows that the skill system in Turkey, in which the state’s involvement is high, leads to skilling practices in auto parts-automotive industry firms that are linked with the public vocational education and training system. Because of this, the skill system generates general and specific skills and higher accessibility to workers and firms, which can facilitate more inclusive and continuous development.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198860655.003.0009
Merve Sancak
This chapter summarises the main arguments of the book and its contribution to the theoretical debates in different fields of study that it draws from. The main arguments in the chapter, and the book in general, relate to the discussion on the convergence versus divergence of firm behaviour due to the governance structures in global value chains versus the national institutional environment surrounding firms, the role of state involvement for national institutions and their complementarities, the idea of complementarity and capitalist systems in countries that are outside of the ideal types, and the implications of skill systems with different levels and types of state involvement for high-road development. The chapter finishes by presenting three new avenues of research to which the book may lead.
{"title":"Concluding remarks","authors":"Merve Sancak","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198860655.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198860655.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter summarises the main arguments of the book and its contribution to the theoretical debates in different fields of study that it draws from. The main arguments in the chapter, and the book in general, relate to the discussion on the convergence versus divergence of firm behaviour due to the governance structures in global value chains versus the national institutional environment surrounding firms, the role of state involvement for national institutions and their complementarities, the idea of complementarity and capitalist systems in countries that are outside of the ideal types, and the implications of skill systems with different levels and types of state involvement for high-road development. The chapter finishes by presenting three new avenues of research to which the book may lead.","PeriodicalId":184953,"journal":{"name":"Global Production, National Institutions, and Skill Formation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114252012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198860655.003.0003
Merve Sancak
This chapter familiarises the reader with the Mexican and Turkish auto parts producers operating in global automotive chains. It elaborates why the auto parts-automotive industry is an important industry for understanding the impact of globalisation and national institutions on firm behaviour and skill systems in middle-income countries. It then gives a brief background about the auto parts-automotive industry of Mexico and Turkey, which is followed by an explanation about the data collection and the interview processes for the research used in the book. Last, the chapter defines the key characteristics of interviewee firms, including their capacity and products, and it explains the key posts on the shop floors and the skills necessary for these posts.
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