Japanese Hybrid Factories

TETSUO ABO is Professor Emeritus at Teikyo University, Japan. His research focuses on Japanese management and production systems in an international context and management geography. His publications include Hybrid Factory: The Japanese Production System in the United States and The Hybrid Factories in Europe: The Japanese Management and Production System Transferred.

• Comparison of Japanese Hybrid Factories in the World: Generalities and Peculiarities of Patterns in the International Transfer of the Japanese Management and Production Systems; T.Abo Hybrid Factories in North America: Changes of the Japanese Management and Production System in the United States between 1986-89 and 2000-01; T.Kawamura The Japanese Production System in a Changing Environment: Changes in Japanese and American Hybrid Factories in Northern Mexico; J.Carrillo Hybrid Factories in East Asia in 1992-93 and After; H.Itagaki Hybrid Factories in China: Japanese Production Systems in the "World Factory"; K.Kamiyama Hybrid Factories with Functional Equivalent in Europe; H.Kumon Japanese Hybrid Factories in Transnational Economies in Central and Eastern Europe: With a Focus on Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia; Z.J.Yuan Discussions; T.Fujimoto, Y.Okamoto, H.Tamura, S.Zhang, R.Boyer, S.Strzelczak, K.Okubayashi, E.Abe, K.Yamazaki, M.Takahashi & M.Wada Concluding Remarks: Japanese Hybrid Factories in a Global Perspectives; T.Abo