Japanese hybrid factories
Subtitle: a comparison of global production strategies
By: edited by Tetsuo Abo ; in association with the Japanese Multinational Enterprise Study Group (JMNESG).
Contributors: Abo, Tetsuo, 1937-; Japanese Multinational Enterprise Study Group.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781403998569
Subjects: Industrial management -- Japan -- Congresses.; Production management -- Japan -- Congresses.; Corporations, Japanese -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-269) and index.
Table of contents: value: 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; value: 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; value: The Japanese production system in a changing environment : changes in Japanese and American hybrid factories in Northern Mexico / Jorge Carrillo; value: Hybrid factories in East Asia in 1992-93 and after / Hiroshi Itagaki; value: Hybrid factories in China : Japanese production systems in 'the world's factory' / Kunio Kamiyama; value: Hybrid factories with functional equivalent in Europe / Hiroshi Kumon; value: Japanese hybrid factories in transitional economies in Central and Eastern Europe : with a focus on Czech, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia / Yuan Zhi Jia; value: DIscussions / Tetsuo Abo; value: Concluding remarks : Japanese hybrid factories in global perspective : diverging or converging? / Tetsuo Abo.