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The task of Chapters 3–9 is to present a full description of the results of our investigations into and analytical assessments of business management at Japanese-affiliated hybrid factories in Europe, with a particular emphasis on the transfer and adaptation of management and production systems. This chapter provides an overall picture of hybrid factories in Europe and a comparison with those in Asia and the United States, while Chapters 4–9 focus on specific countries and/or regions.
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Due to space limitations we cannot present the results of the t-test. This can be found in the Japanese version of this book. See H. Kumon and T. Abo, Nihongata Keiei-Seisan Shisutemu to EU (Minerva Shobo, 2004).
See H. Itagaki (ed.), The Japanese Production System: Hybrid Factories in East Asia (London: Macmillan, 1997), ch. 2.
Ibid. See also T. Abo, ‘Hybridization of the Japanese Production System in North America, Newly Industrializing Economies, South-East Asia, and Europe: Contrasted Configurations’, in R. Boyer, E. Charron, U. Jürgens and S. Tolliday (eds), Between Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer and Hybridization of Productive Models in the International Automobile Industry (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998b).
See Abo, ‘Changes in Japanese automobile and electronic plants in the USA’, op. cit.; Abo, ‘Hybridization of the Japanese Production System’, op. cit.; T. Abo, ‘Spontaneous Integration in Japan and East Asia: Development, Crisis, and Beyond’, in G.L. Clark, M.P. Feldman and M.S. Gartler (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
However, it may be possible that the Material Result first way would lead to technologies taking root. We have examined this in respect of Southeast Asia in T. Abo, ‘After “New Matsushita”: How can a Japanese transplant in Asia skip the important stages in the transfer of production process technology?’, paper presented at the International Conference on Industrial Logistics, 9–12 July 2001, Okinawa.
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Abo, T. (2004). Application and Adaptation of the Japanese Production System in Europe. In: Kumon, H., Abo, T. (eds) The Hybrid Factory in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523654_3
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