Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (352 p.))
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511730283
Content:
The Japanese automotive industry enjoyed spectacular success in the 1980s. This was largely due to the so-called 'Lean Production System' - the combination of an efficient production system, an effective supplier system, and a product development system. In the 1990s the industry fell on hard times because of the Japanese asset price bubble and extreme currency appreciation. In this book, eminent industry specialist Koichi Shimokawa draws on his thirty years of research and fieldwork with Japanese and American firms, to show how the Japanese automotive industry has managed to recover from this difficult period. He shows how firms like Toyota were able to transfer Japanese systems to overseas plants and how they have changed in order to compete in increasingly globalized markets. In addition, the book also addresses the two major challenges to the current industry model: the rise of China and the environmental and energy supply situation.
Note:
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Feb 2013)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521866873
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Shimokawa, Kōichi, 1930 - Japan and the global automotive industry Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010 ISBN 9781107412682
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521866873
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Japan
;
Kraftfahrzeugindustrie
;
Globalisierung
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511730283
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