Tetsuji Kawamura

Hybrid Factories in the United States (eBook, PDF)

The Japanese-Style Management and Production System under the Global Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

Since the early 1980s, Japanese firms have massively globalized their production operations and have shown superb competitive powers in global markets. This meant, however, they had to establish their unique Japanese-style management and production system locally, taking into account different conditions in countries that had not originally nurtured their unique system. In each case, firms found ways to balance applications and adaptations, resulting in a hybridization of their management and production systems. These experiences abroad dictated changes to the traditional system-in order to retain its basic logic and competitiveness, the essentials of the system needed to be redefined. Hybrid Factories in the United States elucidates the real advantages and weaknesses of the Japanese-style management and production system (JMPS) in the United States and elsewhere in the globalized economy. To assess the success of the "hybridization" dynamics of JMPS abroad, the editor and authors developed their own "hybrid-analysis" model, which has been used successfully around and globe for decades, and has been recognized as a major research framework for elucidating the study of international transferability of management and production systems in general. In very concrete ways and attentive to regional differences, the authors' hybrid-analysis methods identify which aspects of JMPS will inevitably change and which should be sustained. Tetsuji Kawamura and his team have provided a crucial and comprehensive resource not only for anyone interested in the Japanese story, but also for those concerned about the future of American manufacturing industries, for the investigation of Japanese transplants provides an invaluable perspective of the real dimensions of major management innovations of U.S. industries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199718528
• Artikelnr.: 38139097

Autorenporträt

Tetsuji Kawamura is professor of economics and dean of the graduate school of economics at Hosei University, Tokyo. He is head of the North American research project of the Japan Multinational Enterprise Study Group, and is a contributing author to numerous books on the Japanese production system abroad and globalization issues.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction: The Japanese-style Management and Production System
in the U.S.A
* (Tetsuji Kawamura)
* 1.1 Japanese and the U.S. Production System and their Vicissitudes in
the United States
* -The significance of the Hybrid Model Analysis
* 1.2 Hybrid Model and the Evaluation Criteria
* 2.: The Japanese Management System and Corporate Strategies (Hiroshi
Itagaki)
* 3.: Hybrid Analysis of Japanese Transplants in the U.S.A
* 3.1 General Features of the Japanese Transplants in the U.S.A.
-Inter-regional and inter-temporal comparisons (Hiroshi Itagaki/
Woosoek Juhn).
* 3.2 Automobile Industries
* 3.2.1 Automobile Industries in North America (Hiroshi Kumon)
* 3.2.2 Japanese Automobile Firms in North America (Shinya Orihashi)
* 3.2.3 Auto Assembly (Kunio Kamiyama)
* 3.2.4 Auto parts and Components (Katsuo Yamazaki)
* 3.3 Electronics Industries
* 3.3.1 Electronics Assembly (Tetsuji Kawamura/Yanshu Hao)
* 3.3.2 Other Electronics (Hiroshi Itagaki)
* 4.: Specific Cases of Hybrid Factories in the United States
* 4.1 Toyota Indiana (Kunio Kamiyama)
* 4.2 Toshiba (Tetsuo Abo)
* 4.3 Minebea (Hansen Corporation) (Zhijia Yuan)
* 4.4 GM Lansing (Tetsuji Kawamura)
* 5.: Situations and Cases in Mexico and Canada
* 5.1 Auto and Electronics Industries and the Maquiladora in Mexico
(Koji Serita)
* 5.2 Honda in Canada and Mexico (Hiroshi Kumon)
* 5.3 Ford Hermosillo (Jorge Carrillo and Yolanda Montiel)
* 5.4 Delphi Mexico (Jorge Carrillo)
* 6.: Conclusion and Prospects (Tetsuji Kawamura)