Kurt Hoffmann of the Science Policy Research Unit and Raphael Kaplinsky of the Institute of Development Studies, both at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

• Preface -- Transnational Corporations and the New International Division of Labour -- The Point of Transition— From Machinofacture to Systemofacture -- The Automobile Industry -- Transition in the Japanese Auto Industry: The Emergence of Systemofacture -- Technological Transformation Among the United States and Western European Motor Vehicle Assemblers -- The Restructuring of Assembler-Supplier Relations and the Growth of Technological Intensity in the United States and Western European Components Industry -- Systemofacture, Investment Location and Off-Shore Sourcing -- TNCs and the New International Division of Labour in the Era of Systemofacture