Just-in-time Inventory Control and the Economic Integration of Japanese-owned Manufacturing Plants with the County, State and National Economies of the United States

Reid, Neil

doi:10.1080/00343409512331349013

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“…Kenney and Florida's (1992) survey revealed that 41.4% of Japanese suppliers are located within 100 miles of their major assembly plant customers. Reid (1994) found significant differences between companies using JIT regimes and other producers, suggesting that JIT delivery causes spatial clustering effects on a very local scale. Klier (2005), in his extensive study of the supplier networks of 10 automotive OEMs in the USA, questions this presumption, arguing that "'just in time' does not always mean 'next door'".…”

Section: Current Trends In the Automotive Industry And The Role Of Gementioning

confidence: 94%

Growth Clusters in European Cities: An Integral Approach

2001

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Abstract. The authors attempt to shed light on the emergence of spatial agglomerations and clusters in the relatively short history of the Polish post-communist automotive sector. Two main questions are addressed: (1) what types of agglomerations dominate in the Polish automotive industry? and (2) to what extent do the existing Polish geographical concentrations in the automotive industry resemble Porter's clusters? The evidence is based on the authors' database covering 955 plants involved in production for the automotive industry. Three ideal types of agglomeration present at this stage of the development of the industry are: a TNC-led satellite platform, a hub-and-spoke district and a specialised cluster. The formation of Porter's clusters is only at its initial stage, and only one agglomeration may be regarded as a 'developing cluster' using Enright's typology. In general, the Polish case confirms that Porter-type cluster formation is a long evolutionary process. At present, the competitive advantages of Polish agglomerations include factor conditions, whereas the linkages, non-production competencies and institutional environment lag behind.

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Section: Current Trends In the Automotive Industry And The Role Of Gementioning

confidence: 94%

Growth Clusters in European Cities: An Integral Approach

2001

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“…They are effective only if spatial proximity enhances inter-firm transactions along particular production chains via the formalization of just-in-time production and supply chain management practices (e.g. the Toyota City; see Sayer, 1986;Womack et al, 1990;Sadler, 1994;Fujita and Hill, 1995;Reid, 1995).…”

Section: (A) Three Ideal-typical Models Of Industrial Clustersmentioning

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Transnational corporations and network effects of a local manufacturing cluster in mobile telecommunications equipment in China

2006

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SummaryThe local formation, and benefits, of industrial clusters have received considerable research attention during the past decade. We argue that the existing literature has underestimated the role of external economies of collective bargaining and production capacity accruing to firms in clusters that are derived from traded relationships with institutions, firms and customers outside local clusters. We define these benefits as non-cluster economies of traded interdependencies among firms in clusters. To illustrate our arguments, we examine the formation in Beijing, China, of one of the world's few mobile telecommunications manufacturing clusters. We show how Nokia, the lead firm in the local industrial cluster, is able to create non-cluster external economies for its key suppliers co-locating in this purposespecific industrial cluster.

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“…These greater benefits of clustering can be attributed to easier information sharing among Japanese firms (e.g. Branstetter 2000), national preferences for amenities such as schools and restaurants, greater advantages of proximity due to the use of just in time delivery and inventory control systems (Reid 1994), and the use of specialized components and intermediates of which the specifications are developed within long-term supplier-assembler relationships in Japan (Hackett and Srinivasan 1998, Sako 1992, Asanuma 1989). …”

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The Location of Japanese Investments in China: Agglomeration Effects, Keiretsu, and Firm Heterogeneity

Belderbos

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2002

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies

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Conditional logit analysis of the locational choice by Japanese electronics firms in China's regions and provinces during 1990-1995 confirms a major impact of general industry, Japanese, and keiretsu-specific agglomeration benefits. Further analysis reveals a substantial aggregation bias due to the presence of firm heterogeneities in terms of investor size and market orientation of manufacturing investments. Small and medium sized enterprises are more sensitive to distance from Japan and Japanese agglomeration, but less sensitive to the presence of incentive zones. Export oriented plants are more responsive than local market oriented plants to keiretsu agglomeration and seaports but less responsive to regional demand.

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Just-in-time Inventory Control and the Economic Integration of Japanese-owned Manufacturing Plants with the County, State and National Economies of the United States

Cited by 57 publications

References 35 publications

Growth Clusters in European Cities: An Integral Approach

Growth Clusters in European Cities: An Integral Approach

Transnational corporations and network effects of a local manufacturing cluster in mobile telecommunications equipment in China

The Location of Japanese Investments in China: Agglomeration Effects, Keiretsu, and Firm Heterogeneity

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