A Comparative Study of international Transfer of Production Technology between Japanese and American Auto and Electronics Firms

日美汽车电子企业生产技术国际转移比较研究

基本信息

批准号：
08630037
负责人：
ABO Tetsuo
金额：
$ 1.09万
依托单位：
The University of Tokyo
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
1996
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1996 至 1997
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

This is the result of two years comparative study of the international technology transfer by Japanese and American manufactureing firms. I carried out the above by using my own previous research on the American multinationals and the main results and data of our joint research group, the Japanese.Multinational Enterprise Study Group, which has been undertaking research on the transferability problems of Japanese style production systems at subsidiary. The main results are as followed.1) The transplants of Japanese manufacturing firms, while not very large, have spread by the early 1990s with surprising speed almost every nook and corner of the world. On the other hand, the American multinationals have been usually very large in their size and centered more into the developed regions.2) "Reluctance" in decision-making processes is one of the most important characteristics of Japanese multinationals due to the human-related competative advantage of Japanese-style flexible production technologies, an advantage deeply rooted in the Japanese sociocultural background, compared with the more "university" -oriented behavior of American firms based on the more industrial engineeringlead mass production technologies.3) This a little complicated relations could be well interpreted when we analyzed the flexible adaptability of the Japanese firms which have been very eager in applying the Japanese practices by sending large number of Japanese expatriates to the local plants.

这是对日本和美国制造企业的国际技术转让进行两年比较研究的结果。上述研究是我利用自己之前对美国跨国公司的研究以及我们联合研究组日本跨国企业研究组的主要成果和数据进行的，该研究组一直在研究日本式生产系统的可转移性问题。子公司。主要结果如下：1）日本制造企业的移植虽然规模不大，但到20世纪90年代初已以惊人的速度几乎遍及世界的每一个角落。另一方面，美国跨国公司的规模通常很大，而且更多地集中在发达地区。2）由于与人相关的因素，决策过程中的“勉强”是日本跨国公司最重要的特征之一。日本式柔性生产技术的竞争优势，这种优势深深植根于日本的社会文化背景，与美国企业以工业工程主导的大规模生产技术为基础的更加“大学”导向的行为相比。3）这个关系有点复杂可以很好地解释当我们分析了日本企业的灵活应变能力，他们非常渴望采用日本的做法，派遣大量的日本外派人员到当地工厂。