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Organisation vs. culture: Japanese automotive transplants in the US
Author(s) -
Florida Richard,
Kenney Martin
Publication year - 1991
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.1468-2338.1991.tb00636.x
Subject(s) - automotive industry , production (economics) , business , japanese culture , organizational culture , work (physics) , industrial organization , operations management , management , economics , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , japanese studies , library science , macroeconomics , aerospace engineering
It has long been argued that the Japanese production organization is culture‐bound and therefore not transferable to other countries. This article examines seven major Japanese automobile assembly plants and over 270 Japanese automotive parts suppliers in the US. The successful transfer of Japanese work and production organization in these ‘transplants’ suggests that Japanese production practices are organizational forms which can be uncoupled from Japanese culture and transferred to other countries.