Hub or hubris? Prospects for the AMP to 2016

摘要

In the third and final installment of this three-part series, Dr Peter Wells and Shanivi Sadana consider the AMP 2006-2016 in a global context. India and the world. While the AMP is about the automotive industry in India, it is clearly the case that the success or failure of the concept will hinge almost entirely on the fit of the plan with changes underway at the global scale. There are some significant forces that might undermine the completion of the plan, not least that the idea of "independence" is of increasing irrelevance to understanding the industry as a whole. That is, what we see emerging is a wide range of arrangements between companies, with the "direction" of dependence also ranging widely.