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This chapter examines the impact made by the Japanese-style production method on the dynamic evolutionary process of production systems in China, with a view to adding the Chinese experience to the discussion on the evolution of manufacturing systems that has become so prevalent in recent years on an international scale.1 Specifically, I shall go back to the first introduction of the Toyota production system (TPS) into China and the process of technology transfer, by focusing on the case of First Automotive Works (Diyi Qiche Jituan Gongsi; hereafter abbreviated to FAW), the representative Chinese automobile manufacturer.
Originally published as “Origin of the Adoption of the Toyota Production System” in Japanese Yearbook on Business History, vol.14, 1997. This article was translated by Edmund R. SKRZYPCZAK of Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.
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Lee, C. (2002). Technology Transfer of the Toyota Production System in China. In: Horaguchi, H., Shimokawa, K. (eds) Japanese Foreign Direct Investment and the East Asian Industrial System. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66990-6_15
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