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Japanese-Owned Car Suppliers in North America: A Review of the Literature and Prosposal for Research

In: The Japanese Business and Economic System

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  • Susan Helper

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Since the late 1970s, 1400 Japanese-owned manufacturing plants have been set up in the United States. In 1994, 322 of these plants supplied the car industry in some way.1 These firms (the automotive ones in particular) have inspired a great deal of research. Their experience is variously cited as proof that Japanese-inspired ‘lean production’ methods can be successfully transplanted to the United States with virtually no adaptation (Kenney and Florida (1994)), as proof that Japanese dualist methods can be transplanted (Howes, 1993a) and as evidence that moving the Japanese production system abroad is slow, difficult and requires much hybridization (Liker et al., 1999).

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  • Susan Helper, 2001. "Japanese-Owned Car Suppliers in North America: A Review of the Literature and Prosposal for Research," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Masao Nakamura (ed.), The Japanese Business and Economic System, chapter 6, pages 139-155, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-51228-3_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230512283_6
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