BERNARD JULLIEN is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bordeaux's GREThA Research Centre, France, and Director of the GERPISA network of research on the car industry. His publications include a chapter in Gabriel Colletis and Yannick Lung, La France industrielle en question.
ANDY SMITH is Director of Research at Sciences-Po Bordeaux's SPIRIT Research Centre, France. His current work on industry is centred upon wine's politics, the subject of a recent book (with J. de Maillard and O. Costa) Vin et politique: Bordeaux, la France et la mondialisation.