The Geographies of Just-in-Time: Japanese Investment and the Automotive Components Industry in Western Europe
研究了1980-90年代日本汽车投资对西欧本土组装和零部件企业的影响，分析了准时制生产是否导致空间集聚，发现JIT并非普遍原则，其属性因地区而异。
AbstractJapanese investment in automobile production in North America and Western Europe during the 1980s and early 1990s posed some sharp questions about the future of domestically owned assemblers and automotive component companies. In North America, substantial expansion by Japanese parts suppliers established new locational patterns geared to producing “just-in-time” (JIT) for the Japanese “transplant” assemblers. In Western Europe, by contrast, Japanese auto manufacturers chose to work from the outset much more closely with an existing supply chain. The paper examines two questions: the extent to which JIT-stvle systems of production were emerging and the degree to which JIT production carried tendencies toward spatial clustering. The analysis focuses on parts purchasing at Japanese assembly plants in Europe and on restructuring within the European automotive components industry. I conclude that JIT is far from a universal organizational principle, but rather has different attributes according to its...