Japanese Hybrid Factories A Comparison of Global Production Strategies [Hardcover]

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.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.AboETSUO ABE Professor, Meiji University, JapanROBERT BOYER Director, CNRS, CEPREMAP, FranceJORGE CARRILLO Chief Research Fellow, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, MexicoTAKAHIRO FUJIMOTO Professor, University of Tokyo, JapanHIROSHI ITAGAKI Professor, Musashi University, JapanKUNIO KAMIYAMA Professor, Josai University, JapanTETSUJI KAWAMURA Professor, Hosei University, JapanHIROSHI KUMON Professor, Hosei University, JapanYASUO OKAMOTO Professor, Bunkyo Gakuin University and Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, JapanKOJI OKUBAYASHI Professor, Kobe University, JapanSTANINISLAW STRZELCZAK Assisl£j