Japanese Hybrid Factories

Japanese Hybrid Factories
Author: T. Abo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2007-06-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230592961

This book presents the findings of the Japanese Multinational Enterprise Study Group and offers the 'Application-adaptation' framework as a means of measuring the degree to which Japanese parent systems are transferred to the subsidiary. It proposes this as a model for assessing the transferability of systems in any multinational enterprise.

Assembling for Development

Assembling for Development
Author: Leslie Sklair
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113685665X

First published in 1989, this book focuses upon the phenomenon of export-led industrialisation fuelled by foreign investment and technology. He concentrates on Mexico, where US companies have been taking advantage of inexpensive labour to establish "maquila" factories that assemble US parts for export. Through this detailed study of the maquila industry, Sklair charts the progress from the political imperialism of colonial days to the economic imperialism of today.