Renault in Spain: From assembly to manufacture, 1961-72

Tomas Fernandez de Sevilla

Business History, 2010, vol. 52, issue 3, 471-492

Abstract: Two broad themes emerge from an analysis of the business history of Fabricacion de Automoviles Sociedad Anonima (FASA) (FASA-Renault from 1965) during the period 1961 to 1972. The first concerns the factors that enabled a less-industrialised country like Spain to develop a powerful car industry. The hypothesis analysed here, which follows Ha-Joon Chang and Paul Krugman, attributes the development to strategic industrial policies that were protectionist in nature. The second broad theme is that business strategies lay behind FASA's ability to adapt successfully to its environment and grow into a large company. The hypothesis examined here is that the company's success was a result of its ability to acquire the five capabilities to which Alfred D. Chandler attributes industrial success in the Second Technological Revolution.

Keywords: strategic industrial policy; Chandler portfolio of skills; large company; car-making industry; FASA-Renault; Renault (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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