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Summary
Summary
The Japanese automotive industry enjoyed spectacular success in the 1980s. This was largely due to the so-called 'Lean Production System' - the combination of an efficient production system, an effective supplier system, and a product development system. In the 1990s the industry fell on hard times because of the Japanese asset price bubble and extreme currency appreciation. In this book, eminent industry specialist Koichi Shimokawa draws on his thirty years of research and fieldwork with Japanese and American firms, to show how the Japanese automotive industry has managed to recover from this difficult period. He shows how firms like Toyota were able to transfer Japanese systems to overseas plants and how they have changed in order to compete in increasingly globalized markets. In addition, the book also addresses the two major challenges to the current industry model: the rise of China and the environmental and energy supply situation.
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This well-written, authoritative business history of the global auto industry from 1970 to 2000 focuses on Japanese and US car companies. Shimokawa, a Japanese academic and specialist on the automobile industry, provides a massive amount of data on the changes in productivity over time between the various car companies as well as the factors affecting shifts in productivity and car quality from the US to Japan over the period. Substantial detail is given on the effects of "lean production," supplier relationships, and localizing manufacturing, management, design, and R&D. Less successful is the author's brief attempt to carry the analysis forward beyond 2000 in the last two of the book's ten chapters. The China chapter, written in 2008, is restricted to statistics on car production by company only through 2005, omitting the huge, more recent developments. The volume also provides very little coverage of the car companies' more recent responses to the environmental and energy challenges that currently preoccupy the industry and society. In summary, an excellent business history for advanced readers interested in the growth of the global auto industry from 1970 to 2000, especially the Japanese car companies. Excellent tables, graphs, and index. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. D. Brand formerly, Harvard University
Table of Contents
| List of figures | p. vii |
| List of tables | p. x |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| 1 Comparing productivity of the Japanese and US automobile industries | p. 8 |
| 2 The internationalization of the Japanese automotive industry and local production overseas | p. 57 |
| 3 The recovery of European and US auto makers, and relocating and changing lean production | p. 83 |
| 4 Early 1990s - the Japanese automotive industry loses international competitiveness, and the development of restructuring strategies | p. 92 |
| 5 The restructuring of the global automotive and auto-parts industries | p. 135 |
| 6 The restructuring of the world's auto-parts industry and the transfiguration of the keiretsu parts transaction | p. 167 |
| 7 Global M&A and the future of the global auto industry - the light and dark sides of merger and re-alignment | p. 203 |
| 8 The Asian and ASEAN automotive industries in the global era | p. 230 |
| 9 China's automotive industry in the global era, Japanese auto makers, and their China strategies | p. 260 |
| 10 Conclusion - the global automotive industry's perspective on the twenty-first century and tasks for the Japanese automotive industry | p. 294 |
| Epilogue | p. 314 |
| Index | p. 317 |
