Japanese Hybrid Factories

ETSUO ABE Professor, Meiji University, Japan ROBERT BOYER Director, CNRS, CEPREMAP, FranceJORGE CARRILLO Chief Research Fellow, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, MexicoTAKAHIRO FUJIMOTO Professor, University of Tokyo, JapanHIROSHI ITAGAKI Professor, Musashi University, JapanKUNIO KAMIYAMA Professor, Josai University, Japan TETSUJI KAWAMURA Professor, Hosei University, Japan HIROSHI KUMON Professor, Hosei University, Japan YASUO OKAMOTO Professor, Bunkyo Gakuin University and Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, JapanKOJI OKUBAYASHI Professor, Kobe University, JapanSTANINISLAW STRZELCZAK Assistant Dean for International Education and Professor, Warsaw University of Technology, PolandMITSURU TAKAHASHI Department of Economics, Teikyo University, JapanHIDEO TAMURA Senior Staff Writer, Nihon Keizai Shinbun Inc, JapanMASATAKE WADA Professor, Teikyo University, JapanKATSUO YAMAZAKI Department of Management, Shizuoka Sangyo University, Japan ZHI JIA YUAN Professor, Rissho University, JapanSHUYING ZHANG Director, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

• Comparison of Japanese Hybrid Factories in the World: Generalities and Peculiarities of Patterns in the International Transfer of the Japanese Management and Production Systems; T.Abo Hybrid Factories in North America: Changes of the Japanese Management and Production System in the United States between 1986-89 and 2000-01; T.Kawamura The Japanese Production System in a Changing Environment: Changes in Japanese and American Hybrid Factories in Northern Mexico; J.Carrillo Hybrid Factories in East Asia in 1992-93 and After; H.Itagaki Hybrid Factories in China: Japanese Production Systems in the "World Factory"; K.Kamiyama Hybrid Factories with Functional Equivalent in Europe; H.Kumon Japanese Hybrid Factories in Transnational Economies in Central and Eastern Europe: With a Focus on Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia; Z.J.Yuan Discussions; T.Fujimoto, Y.Okamoto, H.Tamura, S.Zhang, R.Boyer, S.Strzelczak, K.Okubayashi, E.Abe, K.Yamazaki, M.Takahashi & M.Wada Concluding Remarks: Japanese Hybrid Factories in a Global Perspectives; T.Abo