The fable of the birth of the Japanese automobile industry: A reconsideration of the Toyoda-Platt agreement of 1929

Business History

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 90-118

  Wada, Kazuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lancashire; Technology transfer; Textiles; Toyoda Platt agreement; Toyota

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; HISTORY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 30944432822     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076790500204768     Document Type: Article

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