Global, local or hybrid?: Evidence of adaptation among Japanese automobile plants in Japan, the United States and Canada

Environments

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 15-34

  Rutherford, Tod ^a   Parker, Paul ^a   Koshiba, Tesshu ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automotive transplants; Human resource; Hybrid systems; Japanese; Production

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MANUFACTURING; PRODUCTION SYSTEM;

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; CANADA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; INVESTMENT; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CANADA; JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035738270     PISSN: 07116780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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