Japanese Hybrid Factories

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Comparison of Japanese Hybrid Factories in the World: Generalities and Peculiarities of Patterns in the International Transfer of the Japanese Management and Production Systems

   • Tetsuo Abo

   Pages 1-35

3. 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

   • Tetsuji Kawamura

   Pages 36-64

4. The Japanese Production System in a Changing Environment: Changes in Japanese and American Hybrid Factories in Northern Mexico

   • Jorge Carrillo

   Pages 65-97

5. Hybrid Factories in East Asia in 1992–93 and After

   • Hiroshi Itagaki

   Pages 98-123

6. Hybrid Factories in China: Japanese Production Systems in ‘the world’s factory’

   • Kunio Kamiyama

   Pages 124-143

7. Hybrid Factories with Functional Equivalent in Europe

   • Hiroshi Kumon

   Pages 144-172

8. Japanese Hybrid Factories in Transitional Economies in Central and Eastern Europe: with a Focus on Czech, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia

   • Yuan Zhi Jia

   Pages 173-195

9. Discussions

   • Tetsuo Abo

   Pages 196-234

10. Concluding Remarks: Japanese Hybrid Factories in Global Perspective — Diverging or Converging?

    • Tetsuo Abo

    Pages 235-245

11. Back Matter

    Pages 246-280

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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.

• China
• East Asia
• Eastern Europe
• management

• Tokyo, Japan

  Tetsuo Abo

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

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