両毛地区における自動車関連下請小零細工業の存立構造

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  • THE SUBCONTRACT SYSTEM OF THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY IN THE RYOMO DISTRICT
  • リョウ モウ チク ニ オケル ジドウシャ カンレン シタウケ ショウ レイサ

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the structure and base of the automotive industry's subcontract system in the Ryorno district, Tochigi and Gunma Prefectures. The third-level subcontractors (those of lower stratum, are the very small businesses) of Nissan Mortor Co. Ltd., are the main subject of this study.<br> In the Ryomo district where the textile industry had developed, the machine industry has developed remarkably since 1965 and now attained an important position equal to the textile industry. The rapid growth of the machine industry increased the number of subcontractors, most of which are related to the automotive industry. This trend resulted from the development of the automotive industry in the northen Kanto area, especially from newly establish ment of assembly factories of Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., in Tochigi Prefecture.<br> The contents of this paper may be summarized as follows.<br> 1. In the Ryomo case, the business transactions of very small enterprises are taken place not only with the automotive industry, but also with the machine industry, and their trade pat terns are considerably complicated. Thus the business transactions of very small enterprises in this district come to have multi-origin interplant linkage, for example, conducting trade with more than one large company, and the business transactions appear to be similar to those of very small businesses in Tokyo metropolitan area.<br> In spite of these trade patterns, second-level subcontractors in the automotive industry hold a very large share of business of these small enterprises. Furthermore, second-level subcon tractors appear to exert control over smaller businesses in order to reduce their costs of produc tion. This subcontracting system leads to the multi-origin interplant linkage of smaller busi nesses. It is worth noting that given the overriding influence of the automotive (second-level) subcontractors it is rather difficult for third-level suppliers to stabilize their trading activities through diversification.<br> 2. Certain trade patterns resulted from the aforementioned economic activity, contributed to the unique composition of equipment found in the workshop of these very small businesses. The very small businesses have both machines of high performance and hand operating machines. Unskilled laborers, such as family workers, produce automotive parts by using the former, while skilled workers make more complicated items by using the latter. In addition skilled laborers are usually owner-operators.<br> 3. The purchase structure of such small businesses is also composed of subcontractors (that is, making use of fourth-level subcontractors) and other fellow-traders transactions. The latter is a main form of purchasing of very small businesses. In the case of these transactions, a special purchase and supply system has developed which allows for joint production at the time of peak demand. Through these relationships, the very small businesses manage to cope with the multi-origin interplant linkage of such economic activities, and to avoid, to a certain extent, instability.<br> 4. The very small businesses in this district apear to be sustained by three bases. They are : (a) use of family labor and long working time, (b) fellow-traders transactions between very small businesses, (c) favorable conditions of their locations, which makes the regional agglomeration of the machine industry and possible very small businesses to have the multi-origin interplant linkage.

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  • 地理学評論

    地理学評論 55 (6), 403-420, 1982

    公益社団法人 日本地理学会

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