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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.

Industrial procurement --- Electronic industries --- Cross-cultural studies. --- J4360 --- J4410 --- Buyer-supplier relations --- Buying, Industrial --- Industrial buying --- Industrial equipment --- Industrial purchasing --- Procurement, Industrial --- Purchasing, Industrial --- Supplier-buyer relations --- Industrial management --- Purchasing --- Electronics industry --- Electric industries --- Japan: Economy and industry -- business methods and management --- Japan: Economy and industry -- industrial organization and relations --- Production --- Management --- Great Britain --- Japan --- Cross-cultural studies --- Industrial procurement - Japan. --- Industrial procurement - Great Britain. --- Industrial procurement - Cross-cultural studies. --- Electronic industries - Japan. --- Electronic industries - Great Britain. --- Business, Economy and Management --- Business Management

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All firms wrestle with restructuring, involving consolidation of mergers and acquisitions on the one hand, and fragmentation through outsourcing and spin-offs on the other. Through an in-depth investigation into the organizational strategies of Japanese corporate management and union leaders in Japan, Mari Sako explores the issue of 'organizational boundaries' that arises from such restructuring.Examining the strategy and structure of both businesses and trade unions, the book draws upon empirical evidence drawn from interviews conducted at Toyota and Matsushita and their respective unions. It

Organizational change --- Industrial relations --- Corporate culture --- Corporate culture --- Matsushita Group. --- Toyota Jidōsha Kōgyō Kabushiki Kaisha.

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Occupational training --- Vocational education --- Formation professionnelle --- Enseignement professionnel --- Education, Special Topics --- Education --- Social Sciences

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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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