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Spatial patterns of Japanese investment in the US automobile industry
Author(s) -
Reid Neil
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1990.tb00086.x
Subject(s) - investment (military) , automotive industry , business , scale (ratio) , economic geography , industrial organization , component (thermodynamics) , auto industry , economics , geography , engineering , cartography , political science , aerospace engineering , physics , politics , law , thermodynamics
Here the author examines the locational strategy of Japanese car manufacturers and their component part suppliers in the US at both the regional and local scale. This is compared briefly with the strategy pursued by Japanese investors in the UK auto industry