TETSUO ABO is Professor Emeritus at Teikyo University, Japan. His research focuses on Japanese management and production systems in an international context and management geography. His publications include Hybrid Factory: The Japanese Production System in the United States and The Hybrid Factories in Europe: The Japanese Management and Production System Transferred.

• 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