Kurt Hoffmann of the Science Policy Research Unit and Raphael Kaplinsky of the Institute of Development Studies, both at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

• Preface -- Transnational Corporations and the New International Division of Labour -- The Point of Transition— From Machinofacture to Systemofacture -- The Automobile Industry -- Transition in the Japanese Auto Industry: The Emergence of Systemofacture -- Technological Transformation Among the United States and Western European Motor Vehicle Assemblers -- The Restructuring of Assembler-Supplier Relations and the Growth of Technological Intensity in the United States and Western European Components Industry -- Systemofacture, Investment Location and Off-Shore Sourcing -- TNCs and the New International Division of Labour in the Era of Systemofacture

Kurt Hoffmann of the Science Policy Research Unit and Raphael Kaplinsky of the Institute of Development Studies, both at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

• Preface -- Transnational Corporations and the New International Division of Labour -- The Point of Transition— From Machinofacture to Systemofacture -- The Automobile Industry -- Transition in the Japanese Auto Industry: The Emergence of Systemofacture -- Technological Transformation Among the United States and Western European Motor Vehicle Assemblers -- The Restructuring of Assembler-Supplier Relations and the Growth of Technological Intensity in the United States and Western European Components Industry -- Systemofacture, Investment Location and Off-Shore Sourcing -- TNCs and the New International Division of Labour in the Era of Systemofacture

Kurt Hoffmann of the Science Policy Research Unit and Raphael Kaplinsky of the Institute of Development Studies, both at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

• Preface -- Transnational Corporations and the New International Division of Labour -- The Point of Transition— From Machinofacture to Systemofacture -- The Automobile Industry -- Transition in the Japanese Auto Industry: The Emergence of Systemofacture -- Technological Transformation Among the United States and Western European Motor Vehicle Assemblers -- The Restructuring of Assembler-Supplier Relations and the Growth of Technological Intensity in the United States and Western European Components Industry -- Systemofacture, Investment Location and Off-Shore Sourcing -- TNCs and the New International Division of Labour in the Era of Systemofacture