Industrial subcontracting in the UK and Japan

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Industrial subcontracting in the UK and Japan

John T. Thoburn, Makoto Takashima

Avebury , Ashgate Pub. Co., 1997

reprinted

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-152)

"Reprinted 1997" -- t.p.

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book investigates the possibility that increased use of subcontracting could improve the international competitiveness of British industry, drawing lessons from Japan. Based on interviews in Britain and Japan over 40 companies, it concentrates on subcontracting in mechanical engineering, electronics and the motor industry. Pressures such as intensified international competitions, increased market volatility, and accelerated technical change have forced British firms into reorganization. The increased use of subcontracting involved in this has partly been the result of changes in the fundamental transactions-cost-economics determinants of subcontracting behaviour; but also, under-utilized and already-existing subcontracting opportunities have been taken up in order to reduce costs, and this has required a rethinking of companies' methods of supply chain management. Subcontracting in Japan has involved highly efficient supply chain management and appears to have stimulated cooperative innovation.

目次

  • Subcontracting, flexible specialization, and Britain's international competitiveness
  • subcontracting and the economics of transactions costs
  • how do external pressures on firms lead to more subcontracting?
  • subcontracting in the United Kingdom and Japan - a preliminary account - subcontracting in the UK
  • subcontracting in Japan
  • the industries and firms - the choice of industries and firms
  • the choice of industries, the company interviewing programme, introduction to the industries
  • engineering, the motor industry, the electronics industry
  • the engineering companies - the companies
  • the subcontracting decision
  • the British principals, the Japanese principals, supply chain management
  • subcontractor selection, development and monitoring, contractual arrangements and the subcontracting relationship, sub-subcontracting
  • the subcontractors' experience of subcontracting
  • subcontractors' perceptions of their competitive advantage, subcontractor selection and monitoring, contractual relations, technology transfer and other help, dependence, dualism and opportunism?
  • the motor industry companies - the companies
  • the subcontracting decision
  • the British principals, the Japanese principals, supply chain management
  • subcontractor selection, development and monitoring, contractual arrangements and the subcontracting relationship, sub-subcontracting, the subcontractors' experience of subcontracting
  • subcontractors' perceptions of their competitive advantage, subcontractor selection and monitoring, contractual relations, technology transfer and other help, dependence, dualism and opportunism?, the electronic companies - the companies
  • the subcontracting decision
  • the British principals, the Japanese principals, supply chain management
  • subcontractor selection, development and monitoring, contractual arrangements and the subcontracting relationship, sub-subcontracting, the subcontractors' experience of subcontracting
  • subcontractors' perceptions of their competitive advantage, subcontractor selection and monitoring, contractual relations, technology transfer and other help, dependence, dualism and opportunism?, the Japanese subcontracting relations - introduction
  • Japanese subcontracting relationships in practice
  • the basis of subcontract trading - a code of faith, ahum-no-kokyuu - "breathing in harmony", or maintaining a cooperative attitude, joint development, Part contents.

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