Interfirm Relations in Global Manufacturing: Disintegrated Production and Its Globalization
Interfirm Relations in Global Manufacturing: Disintegrated Production and Its Globalization
This chapter outlines the globalization of disintegrated production. It discusses the relationship between contemporary global disintegrated trends and earlier discussions of disintegration that came out of literatures on industrial districts and the Japanese system of production. Elements of both are contained within current practices. A second section discusses the locational dynamics within supply chains dominated by multinational corporations. A final section looks at small and medium sized firm efforts to globalize within contemporary transnational supply chains and examines a range of public policy efforts to support sme globalization
Keywords: globalization, transnational supply chains, industrial districts, lean production, Japanese production systems, Chandlerian Firms, vertical disintegration, collaboration, role ambiguity, Germany, Denmark, Italy, China, Japan, United States, Central Europe, regional industrial policy, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
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