Japanese Motor Industry Transplants

The West European Dimension

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7757183
AutoresPhilip N Jones, John North, J Lionel North
Año1991
Volumen67
Número2
Páginas105
Fecha de publicación1991-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomic Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/143540
OpenAlexW2320193976
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas7

This paper examines the geography of Japanese motor industry investments in Western Europe, including the U.K. The basic framework for the analysis is provided by the changing technology and organization of car production, but the relevance of political factors influencing the scale, location and composition of investments is also stressed. At the macroscale, Japanese investments focus on the U.K., which has, for essentially political and cultural reasons, become an “offshore car production platform.” At the mesoscale, within the U.K., Japanese firms have chosen “non- traditional” sites in terms of labor supply for their major transplants, which enables new production practices to be utilized more readily. In all cases, however, the final site selection reflects the input of behavioral factors. Tight-knit concentrations of transplants and component manufacturers, as observed in the U.S.A., have not emerged, largely due to more stringent “local content” ratios and the existence of a powerful indigenous com

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