ABSTRACT
Even though Australia is only a small and internally dispersed market, it is one which Japanese manufacturers have been unable to ignore. Their sales to this country, together with their investments in local factories, have been an important component of Australia-Japan economic integration. In fact, the large Australian production plants of the three car companies, Toyota, Nissan, and Mitsubishi Motors (out of an Australian total of five local producers), are the most obvious indicators of the degree of integration which has taken place between the two countries. The contribution of this chapter is to examine how the various home- and host-country factors shown in Figure 4.1 have been responsible for influencing the location and behaviour of Japanese manufacturing companies in Australia.
