Japanese Hybrid Factories

A Comparison of Global Production Strategies

T. Abo

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9781403998569
• eBook ISBN: 9780230592964
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: International Business
• Index: Business

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Japanese Hybrid Factories
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Comparison of Japanese Hybrid Factories in the World: Generalities and Peculiarities of Patterns in the International Transfer of the Japanese Management and Production Systems
• 2 Hybrid Factories in North America: Changes of the Japanese Management and Production System in the United States Between 1986 and 1989 and 2000 and 2001
• 3 The Japanese Production System in a Changing Environment: Changes in Japanese and American Hybrid Factories in Northern Mexico
• 4 Hybrid Factories in East Asia in 1992–93 and After
• 5 Hybrid Factories in China: Japanese Production Systems in ‘the world’s factory’
• 6 Hybrid Factories with Functional Equivalent in Europe
• 7 Japanese Hybrid Factories in Transitional Economies in Central and Eastern Europe: with a Focus on Czech, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia
• 8 Discussions
• 9 Concluding Remarks: Japanese Hybrid Factories in Global Perspective – Diverging or Converging?
• Appendix: Criteria for the Application Scores in the Hybridization Evaluation of 23 Items, 6 Groups*
• Bibliography
• Index