"Just-in-time", the regulation approach and the new industrial geography

Japanese Journal of Human Geography

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 471-492

  Nojiri, Wataru ^a  

^a Momoyama Gakuin University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Just in time; New industrial geography; Post fordism; Quasi vertical integration; Regulation theory

Indexed keywords

FORDISM; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; SUBCONTRACTING;

EID: 0036965528     PISSN: 00187216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4200/jjhg1948.54.471     Document Type: Article

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