Title: Driving force : the global restructuring of technology, labour, and investment in the automobile and components industries /
Authors: Hoffman, Kurt.; Kaplinsky, Raphael; Centre on Transnational Corporations (United Nations)
Publisher: Westview Press,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Automobile industry and trade International cooperation.; Automobile supplies industry International cooperation.; Automobile industry and trade Automation.; Automobile supplies industry Automation.; International division of labor.; International business enterprises.; Investments, Foreign.
Contents: 1. Transnational corporations and the new international division of labour -- 2. The point of transition -- from machinofacture to systemmofacture -- 3. The automobile industry -- 4. Transition in the Japanese auto industry: the emergence of systemofacture -- 5. Technological transformation among the United States and Western European motor vehicle assemblers -- 6. The restructuring of assembler-supplier relations and the growth of technological intensity in the United States and Western European components industry -- 7. Systemofacture, investment location and off-shore sourcing in the automobile components sector -- 8. TNCs and the new international division of labour in the era of systemofacture.