France and the Benelux Countries

Abstract

This chapter analyses the operations of Japanese multinationals in France and the Benelux countries. On-site surveys of 16 companies were conducted, 12 of which are included in our application-adaptation evaluation: the items in the evaluation were mainly designed for surveys of factories and therefore we have excluded two European headquarters that have no plants, and two other companies for which the data collected were inadequate. France is at the top of the host country list with eight companies (two of which are excluded from the analysis here due to the insufficiently high quality of the survey data), followed by the Netherlands (two), Belgium (one) and Luxembourg (one). The Netherlands and Belgium host the European headquarters of Nissan and Toyota respectively.