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Prices, quality, and trust : inter-firm relations in Britain and Japan
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ISBN: 0521413869 9780521413862 9780511520723 9780521061063 0521061067 0511520727 051183313X 0511002645 Year: 1992 Volume: 18 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The management of buyer-supplier relations has come to be regarded as a key to achieving manufacturing competitiveness, particularly in sectors facing global competition based on both price and quality. This book is a theoretical and empirical exploration of the link between the type of buyer-supplier relations and corporate performance. Dr Sako examines how British and Japanese companies in the electronics industry manage their relationships with buyers and suppliers, the empirical study comprising a three-way comparison of a Japanese customer company, a British customer company, and a Japanese company in Britain, and an analysis of 36 supplier companies in Britain and Japan. Variations of the companies' business practices are assessed in terms of technology, the nature of market competition, the national legal framework, financial structures, employment systems, and the mode of entrepreneurship. The author identifies two distinct approaches in the two countries - the arm's-length contractual relation (ACR) in Britain, and the obligational contractual relation (OCR) in Japan - and argues that the trust and interdependence present in the latter can be a powerful springboard from which to achieve corporate success.

Are skills the answer?: the political economy of skill creation in advanced industrial countries
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ISBN: 0199241112 0191589519 9786610904495 1280904496 9780191589515 9780191685040 0191685046 0198294387 9780198294382 9780199241118 Year: 1999 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This text analyses the policies and provision of vocational education in advanced industrial countries against the backdrop of changing labour markets.

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