| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Industrial clusters in Thailand are composed of many Japanese companies, especially automobile companies and their suppliers. In the supply chain of Toyota in particular, Toyota and Denso regard their suppliers as partners and they build the same Japanese buyer-suppliers relationship (long-term relationship, Keiretsu) in Thailand as in Japan. Toyota and Denso select specific suppliers and they train them through free technical assistance in the manufacturing process (i.e. purchasing activities through training of suppliers). In this study, it is revealed that Japanese automobile companies and their suppliers played an important role in the creation process of industrial clusters in Thailand. As a result, these clusters are very unique in the world. Behind the uniqueness, there is a tendency among Japanese automobile companies to build Japanese buyer-supplier relationship abroad via purchasing activities through training of suppliers.
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