Knowledge-Intensive Mother Factory

Oki, Kiyohiro

doi:10.7880/abas.14.293

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“…The Nakasone office supports the company's overseas sites. The mother plant that supports the overseas sites has various roles (Oki, 2015), with the Nakasone office supporting technology development and human resources.…”

Section: Ikegami Mold Engineering's International Allocation Of Its Vmentioning

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International allocation of value chains

Suh

2018

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It has been explained in the past that multinational firms gain competitive advantage by creating a structure for the international division of labor through allocating certain activities in their value chains to advantageous locations. Actually, however, a firm's subsidiaries are exposed to business environments that differ from those of their home country; hence, an international division of labor may have resulted from an emergent strategy. The Ikegami Mold Engineering Group has production sites in Japan, Mexico, and China that manufacture and sell molds. The Mexico site differs from the others in that it repairs and overhauls molds. This business was not planned in advance but was rather built from an emergent strategy because of the business environment in Mexico: the industrial infrastructure is not suited to the manufacture of molds, the Mexican market exhibited demand for the repair and overhaul of molds, and Ikegami had built up the technological capabilities to respond to that need. Thus, a new a) Faculty of Business Administration, Toyo University, 5-28-20, Hakusan, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, ruiberd@gmail.com A version of this paper was presented at the ABAS Conference 2018 Winter (Suh, 2018). © 2018 Youngkyo Suh. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Section: Ikegami Mold Engineering's International Allocation Of Its Vmentioning

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International allocation of value chains

Suh

2018

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“…Besides GTA, other approaches includeEisenhardt (1989) andYin (2009). Studies that use their methods includeKim (2015) andOki (2015). SeeSato (2016) for the characteristics of theEisenhardt (1989) approach.5 However, qualitative research is commonly used in some areas(Sato, 2014).…”

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Using grounded theory approach in management research

Sato

2019

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In the field of management research, the grounded theory approach (GTA) pioneered by Glaser and Strauss (1967) is frequently cited to assert methodological validity in qualitative theory-building studies, in contrast with quantitative research that uses majority hypothesis validation. Glaser and Strauss eventually came to disagree with each other, and GTA branched into three perspectives. Of these, Strauss and Corbin (1990), which defines coding and other analytical processes in detail, is cited most frequently although the studies that cite it do not necessarily reflect its characteristics. It is, therefore, clear that the differences in these three perspectives are not connected with differences in research methodologies.

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The History of a Mother Factory

Oki

2016

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This study identifies the usage of the term "mother factory" in the Japanese mass media, Japanese academic research, and non-Japanese academic research and analyzes historical changes in the usage of the term. It indicates that initially, all three groups used the term to mean "a unit that continuously supports overseas factories," but over time, the term has taken on additional connotations outside of Japanese academic research.

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Knowledge-Intensive Mother Factory

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

International allocation of value chains

International allocation of value chains

Using grounded theory approach in management research

The History of a Mother Factory

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