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Sanyo’s Overseas Production Activities: Seven Large Plants in the US, Mexico, the UK, Germany, Spain and China

In: The Global Competitiveness of the Asian Firm

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  • Tetsuo Abo

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Together with Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sanyo Electric Co. is the most internationalised typical manufacturing multinational enterprise (MNE) in Japan. Sanyo has a certain ‘reluctance’ to pursue overseas production, a factor which has been emphasised as the most significant feature of Japanese MNEs, and has not adhered as strongly to the conventional idea, like many other Japanese manufacturers, of diversifying its world wide production facilities. However, it is surprisingly flexible in setting up its overseas manufacturing subsidiaries and branches, in terms of timing, place, product and scale. In short, it is an exceptionally localisation-oriented MNE among Japanese manufacturing firms, and, as a consequence, has established a large variety of local plants from region to region.

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  • Tetsuo Abo, 1994. "Sanyo’s Overseas Production Activities: Seven Large Plants in the US, Mexico, the UK, Germany, Spain and China," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Hellmut Schütte (ed.), The Global Competitiveness of the Asian Firm, chapter 12, pages 179-200, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-23423-3_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23423-3_12
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    1. Jacky F.L. Hong & Robin Stanley Snell, 2015. "Boundary-crossing and the localization of capabilities in a Japanese multinational firm," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(3), pages 364-382, July.

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