ABSTRACT
The Indian automobile industry has experienced a lot of transformation in the last two decades. With the liberalization and globalization process starting in 1991, the industry has seen the entry of international automobile majors in India. Along with the automobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), auto component industry has transformed itself from a traditional job fulfiler role to an integrated organization role (Sahoo, Banwet, and Momaya 2011).The process of technological development in Indian automobile industry can be seen in the auto-clusters. Automobile clusters are developed in North (NCR-Uttaranchal), East (Jamshedpur-Kolkata), South (Chennai-HosurBangalore) and Western (Mumbai-Pune-Aurangabad) regions. Based on technology dynamism, market liberalization and competitiveness, clusters have experienced all the phases of life cycle: pre-foundation phase (1945-1965), emergence phase (1966-1984), growth phase I (1985-1995), growth phase II (1996-2007) and sustenance Phase (year 2008 onwards).
