Information technology and automobile distribution: a comparative study of Japan and the USA
Information technology and automobile distribution: a comparative study of Japan and the USA
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信息技术与汽车流通：日本与美国的比较研究
DOI：
10.1504/ijatm.2002.000064
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发表时间：
2002
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通讯作者：
M. Morita
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作者：
K. Nishimura;M. Morita
Automobile distribution has undergone a drastic change in recent years both in Japan and the USA, because of so-called "market globalisation" and "digital/network revolution". The purpose of this paper is to provide an analytic framework of this change and to apply it to Japan and the United States to foresee differences in future development. We argue that the firm's strategic positions can be summarised in the three-dimensional "strategic-pattern" space; 1 - whether the firm is prone to "combinatorial optimisation" or "process oriented optimisation", 2 - whether the firm's products are based on "modular architecture" or "integral architecture", and 3 - whether the firm adopts "horizontal-dominance strategy" or "vertical enclosure strategy". We then characterise recent developments in the US and Japanese car markets as a result of car manufacturers' and dealers' adaptation to global competition and information techn...
