Modularization in the Car Industry

The Business of Systems Integration

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Takeishi, Akira ^a   Fujimoto, Takahiro ^b,c,d  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Research Institute of Economy Trade and Industry   (Japan)

^d HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Automotive industry; Inter firm hierarchies; Modularity; Outsourcing; Product; Production; Systems integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919599150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199263221.003.0013     Document Type: Chapter

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