ABSTRACT
This book explores Japanese investment in Europe and Southeast Asia, in relation to the automobile industry. In Part I the authors examine industrial organization and policy issues in Thailand, Malaysia, The Philippines and Indonesia, looking at Japanese investment and the relative policy successes and failures in these host countries. Part II looks at skill formation systems in the Japanese dominated automobile industry in Southeast Asia and in Part III the authors focus on the EU and the very different influence of Japanese investment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |118 pages
Part I Industrial organization and industry policy in ASEAN
chapter 6|18 pages
Indonesian industrial policy in the automobile sector
chapter 7|24 pages
Strategic effects of firm sizes and dynamic capabilities on overseas operations
part |83 pages
Part II The transferability of ‘Japanese' skill formation systems
part |65 pages
Part III Industrial organization and skill formation in Europe — with Japanese influence?