Self-Organization and Clustered Control in the Toyota Group: Lessons from the Aisin Fire

Japanese supplier management practices have in past years attracted much attention in the US and Europe. Several aspects of these practices still remain relatively neglected, however, such as collaborative relationships between suppliers themselves. In this paper we argue that a recent incident i...

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Main Authors: Beaudet, Alexandre, Nishiguchi, Toshihiro
Language:en_US
Published: 2002
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1457