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Assembler-Supplier Relationships in Japan: Past and Present

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09430007
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 経済政策(含経済事情)
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

SATO Hiroki  Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Professor, 社会科学研究所, 教授 (60162468)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) NAKAMURA Keisuke  Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Professor, 社会科学研究所, 教授 (30227889)
WADA Kazuo  Department of Economics, University of Tokyo, Professor, 大学院・経済学研究科経済学部, 教授 (20121478)
HASHIMOTO Juro  Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Professor, 社会科学研究所, 教授 (60106888)
ISHIDA Hiroshi  Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Professor, 社会科学研究所, 教授 (40272504)
Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1999
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1999)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,700,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
KeywordsSub-contract management / Purchasing management / Long-term inter company / Company group / 継続的取引関係 / 外注管理 / 下請企業 / 取引関係 / 中小企業政策
Research Abstract

We examined how the sub-contract system in automobile industry and electrical machinery industry have developed in the 1950' and 1960' in Japan. Focusing on the final assembly maker of the automobile and electrical machinery industry, we studied how the such sub-contract system, that are observed today, have been formed from the 1950's through the 60's. We conducted the following researches.
First, we reanalyzed from a new point of view the questionnaire survey regarding the purchase control that the Institute of Social Science at Tokyo University carried out in the 1950's (this data set, we compiled, will be disclosed to academic people).
Second, we collected and analyzed the company documents concerning sub-contract management and purchasing management.
Third, we interviewed the key persons in charge of the purchasing control in that time not only in the head office but also at the plant.
Fourth, we carried but the interview with the key persons of the Materials Control Association and the Value Engineering Association who were in charge of teaching the staff of the purchasing control department in enterprise.
Fifth, we studied the structure and function of the Roren, the federation of enterprise unions organizing group companies including the sub-contract companies using questionnaire survey.
We reached the conclusions that institutionalization of the purchase control department in enterprise and the institutionalization of the subcontracting system is in reciprocal relationship (the grading system for sub-contract companies etc.).

Report

(4 results)
  • 1999 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1998 Annual Research Report
  • 1997 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All Other

All Publications (9 results)

  • [Publications] 佐藤 博樹: "労働はいかなる機能を果たしているか?:自動車産業と電機産業の比較から"季刊労働法. 188号. 89-98 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 和田 一夫: "豊田喜一郎文書集成"名古屋大学出版会. 635 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 和田 一夫: "Americanization and Its Limits"Oxford University Press. (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sato Hiroki: ""The Role of Roren Union Federation in Japan""The Quarterly Journal of Labor Law. No. 188. 89-98 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Wada Kazuo: "Collection of Toyota Kichiro's Document"635 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Wada Kazuo: "Americanization and Its Limits"(2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 佐藤博樹: "労働はいかなる機能を果たしているか?:自動車産業と電気産業の比較から"季刊労働法. 188号. 89-98 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 和田一夫: "豊田喜一郎文書集成"名古屋大学出版会. 635 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 和田一夫: "Americanization and Its Limits"Oxford University Press. (2000)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report

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