This article investigates the core-semiperiphery-periphery structure of the European automotive industry between 2003 and 2017 by drawing on the global value chains and global production networks perspectives and on the conceptual explanation of the spatial division of labor in transnational production networks in the automotive industry. It develops a methodology to empirically determine the relative position of countries in the core, semiperiphery, or periphery, and changes in their position over time. The methodology is based on calculating the automotive industry power of individual countries, which is the combination of trade-based positional power, ownership and control power, and innovation power in the automotive industry. On the one hand, the empirical analysis revealed a dominant position of Germany as a higher-order core, which is joined only by France and Italy in the stable core of the European automotive industry. On the other hand, the periphery is mostly located in East-Central Europe despite the rapid growth of the automotive industry there since the 1990s. The majority of countries kept a stable relative position in the core-semiperiphery-periphery structure of the European automotive industry transnational production system during the 2003–2017 period.

本文通过借鉴全球价值链和全球生产网络的视角，以及对汽车行业跨国生产网络空间分工的概念解释，考察了 2003 年至 2017 年欧洲汽车工业的核心-半外围-外围结构。 . 它开发了一种方法来凭经验确定国家在核心、半外围或外围的相对位置，以及它们的位置随时间的变化。该方法论基于对单个国家汽车产业实力的计算，是汽车产业的贸易地位、所有权和控制权以及创新力的结合。一方面，实证分析揭示了德国作为高阶核心的主导地位，仅次于法国和意大利，成为欧洲汽车工业的稳定核心。另一方面，尽管自 1990 年代以来汽车工业快速增长，但外围主要位于东欧中欧。2003-2017年间，多数国家在欧洲汽车工业跨国生产体系的核心-半外围-外围结构中保持稳定的相对地位。