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This book explores the superiority of the management systems found in world class Japan manufacturers and the process by which these systems are being imported to the USA. The concept of Japanese manufacturing methods, in particular the system known as "lean production," is transforming American industry. The editors and contributors use the term "Japanese Advanced Manufacturing Systems" to refer to social, organizational, and technological systems used by world class Japanese manufacturers. They look at the system at the factory level, the corporate system level, and at a level outside the corporate system, including consumer markets, the regulatory environment, the technology sector, and the educational system outside the firm. The two industries that are addressed are automobiles and electronics.

Over the last two decades, Japanese firms have challenged U.S. dominance in many manufacturing industries. This challenge has increasingly come in the form of transplant operations, and recognition has spread that their success owes a great deal to superior manufacturing management. Despite the ups and downs of the business cycle in Japan, there remains a core of world-class Japanese companies that have developed manufacturing management systems that companies throughout the world strive to emulate. In this edited volume, a team of eminent scholars uses case studies and large-scale surveys to explain in depth the process of transferring and transforming the best Japanese Management Systems (JMS) by both Japanese- and U.S.-owned firms. While the most successful of the Japanese manufacturing transplants rely, to varying degrees, on home country management techniques, they have had to adapt them to fit U.S. conditions. Similarly, the growing number of U.S. firms that are adopting these techniques to strengthen their own positions face a considerable challenge in transforming them to fit local conditions. A new environment necessarily compels the transformation of JMS. But despite the hurdles firms face, the evidence presented here and elsewhere strongly indicates that key aspects of JMS are remarkably transferable and successful in the United States. Combining scientific data with clear and engaging prose,Remade in America is a rich analytical resource for manufacturing professionals, as well as scholars and students of management and business.

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CONTENTS

Contributors = xiii

1 Bringing Japanese Management Systems to the United States : Transplantation or Transformation? / Jeffrey K. Liker ; W. Mark Fruin ; Paul S. Adler = 3

Part Ⅰ Automotive and Automotive Parts

 2 Transferring Competitive Advantage across Borders : A Study of Japanese Auto Transplants in North America / Frits K. Pil ; John Paul MacDuffie = 39

 3 Hybridization : Human Resource Management at Two Toyota Transplants / Paul S. Adler = 75

 4 Recontextualization and Factory-to-Factory Knowledge Transfer from Japan to the United States : The Case of NSK / Mary Yoko Brannen ; Jeffrey K. Liker ; W. Mark Fruin = 117

 5 Creating Lean Suppliers : Diffusing Lean Production through the Supply Chain / John Paul MacDuffie ; Susan Helper = 154

Part Ⅱ Electronics and Related Products

 6 Japanese Quality Technology : Transferred and Transformed at Hewlett-Packard / Robert E. Cole = 203

 7 Site-Specific Organization Learning in International Technology Transfer : Example from Toshiba / W. Mark Fruin = 232

 8 Transplantation? A Comparison of Japanese Television Assembly Plants in Japan and the United States / Martin Kenney = 256

 9 Using Expatriate Supervisors to Promote Cross-Border Management Practice Transfer : The Experience of a Japanese Electronics Company / Mark F. Peterson ; T. K. Peng ; Peter B. Smith = 294

Part Ⅲ Surveys across Industries

 10 Work System Innovation among Japanese Transplants in the United States / Davis Jenkins ; Richard Florida = 331

 11 Just-In-Time and Other Manufacturing Practices : Implications for U.S. Manufacturing Performance / Masao Nakamura ; Sadao Sakakibara ; Roger G. Schroeder = 361

 12 Organization Theory Perspectives on the Cross-Border Transfer of Organizational Patterns / D. Eleanor Westney = 385

Index = 409