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Supplier-Assembler Relationships in the Motor Industry

In: Firms and Industrial Organization in Japan

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  • Yoshiro Miwa

    (University of Tokyo)

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Paralleling Japan’s industrial success is the ‘spreading awareness that a vast group of small businesses support it’ (Sato, 1986, p. 152). Therefore, since the industrial success of Japan depends more than anything else upon the success of the fabrication and assembly-type industries, increased interest in small business is above all focused on those engaged in supplier-assembler (final manufacturer) relationships or subcontracting. This chapter examines the formation and workings of Japan’s inter-firm relationships for division of labour, known as shitauke, or subcontracting. The motor industry is taken as the representative fabrication and assembly industry.

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  • Yoshiro Miwa, 1996. "Supplier-Assembler Relationships in the Motor Industry," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Firms and Industrial Organization in Japan, chapter 4, pages 58-80, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37146-0_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230371460_4
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