Download or read book Hybrid Factory written by Tetsuo Abo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study on which Hybrid Factory is based focused on Japanese manufacturing firms that, beginning in the 1970s, and increasingly in the 1980s, vigorously embarked on overseas production in the United States. The book looks in particular at which management factors that provide strength to Japanese production systems can survive the transfer to the United States, or whether the radically different social and cultural environment makes such a transfer impossible.