Japanese Motor Industry Transplants: The West European Dimension
研究了日本汽车企业在西欧（包括英国）的投资地理分布，分析了技术、组织变化和政治因素对投资规模、地点和构成的影响，发现英国因政治文化原因成为“离岸汽车生产平台”，且日本企业选择了非传统劳动力供应地点。
This paper examines the geography of Japanese motor industry investments in Western Europe, including the U.K. The basic framework for the analysis is provided by the changing technology and organization of car production, but the relevance of political factors influencing the scale, location and composition of investments is also stressed. At the macroscale, Japanese investments focus on the U.K., which has, for essentially political and cultural reasons, become an “offshore car production platform.” At the mesoscale, within the U.K., Japanese firms have chosen “non- traditional” sites in terms of labor supply for their major transplants, which enables new production practices to be utilized more readily. In all cases, however, the final site selection reflects the input of behavioral factors. Tight-knit concentrations of transplants and component manufacturers, as observed in the U.S.A., have not emerged, largely due to more stringent “local content” ratios and the existence of a powerful indigenous com...