Japanese Hybrid Factories: A Comparison of Global Production Strategies

by T. Abo (Editor)

Overview

This book presents the findings of the Japanese Multinational Enterprise Study Group and offers the 'Application-adaptation' framework as a means of measuring the degree to which Japanese parent systems are transferred to the subsidiary. It proposes this as a model for assessing the transferability of systems in any multinational enterprise.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403998569
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/15/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

ETSUO ABE Professor, Meiji University, Japan ROBERT BOYER Director, CNRS, CEPREMAP, France JORGE CARRILLO Chief Research Fellow, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico TAKAHIRO FUJIMOTO Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan HIROSHI ITAGAKI Professor, Musashi University, Japan KUNIO KAMIYAMA Professor, Josai University, Japan TETSUJI KAWAMURA Professor, Hosei University, Japan HIROSHI KUMON Professor, Hosei University, Japan YASUO OKAMOTO Professor, Bunkyo Gakuin University and Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan KOJI OKUBAYASHI Professor, Kobe University, Japan STANINISLAW STRZELCZAK Assistant Dean for International Education and Professor, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland MITSURU TAKAHASHI Department of Economics, Teikyo University, Japan HIDEO TAMURA Senior Staff Writer, Nihon Keizai Shinbun Inc, Japan MASATAKE WADA Professor, Teikyo University, Japan KATSUO YAMAZAKI Department of Management, Shizuoka Sangyo University, Japan ZHI JIA YUAN Professor, Rissho University, Japan SHUYING ZHANG Director, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

Table of Contents

Comparison of Japanese Hybrid Factories in the World: Generalities and Peculiarities of Patterns in the International Transfer of the Japanese Management and Production Systems; T.Abo Hybrid Factories in North America: Changes of the Japanese Management and Production System in the United States between 1986-89 and 2000-01; T.Kawamura The Japanese Production System in a Changing Environment: Changes in Japanese and American Hybrid Factories in Northern Mexico; J.Carrillo Hybrid Factories in East Asia in 1992-93 and After; H.Itagaki Hybrid Factories in China: Japanese Production Systems in the "World Factory"; K.Kamiyama Hybrid Factories with Functional Equivalent in Europe; H.Kumon Japanese Hybrid Factories in Transnational Economies in Central and Eastern Europe: With a Focus on Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia; Z.J.Yuan Discussions; T.Fujimoto, Y.Okamoto, H.Tamura, S.Zhang, R.Boyer, S.Strzelczak, K.Okubayashi, E.Abe, K.Yamazaki, M.Takahashi & M.Wada Concluding Remarks: Japanese Hybrid Factories in a Global Perspectives; T.Abo