Investigation of Influence of Automobile supplier by International Restructuring in Automobile Industry

研究人员2005年出版专著1部，2002-2005年三年期间发表学术论文23篇。为了出版这些学术成果，我们的研究人员对世界各地的汽车和汽车零部件制造商进行了大量的第一手调查访问。我们的研究人员在以下国家完成了100多家公司的访问和访谈；美国、英国、法国、德国、奥地利、匈牙利、荷兰、捷克、斯洛伐克、中国大陆和日本。我们参观的公司有丰田、日产、MMC等汽车制造商和电装、爱信、Calsonic、Yazaki、NOK等零部件供应商。我们收集了有关日本和世界汽车制造商和供应商的已发表的数据和统计数据，以便我们的研究人员除了上述学术论文外，还可以向《汽车零部件工业月刊》等商业杂志投稿。我们的工作研究领域如下：1)美国、欧洲和日本汽车制造商全球管理制度及其绩效的国际比较研究。2)对日本汽车企业进行实证研究，重点关注日本汽车企业的QCD管理体系和产品开发体系；3)对支撑日本汽车企业卓越绩效的日本一级供应商进行实证研究，重点关注日本一级供应商在国际比较中的管理水平以及日本二级和三级供应商；4)日式生产体系在世界范围内的扩散实证研究，特别是日式生产体系向海外移植的转移、对外国本土制造商的引进以及当地社会对日式生产体系的反应。

Our research members published 1 book in 2005 and 23 academic papers within three-year project period 2002-2005. To publish these academic products, our research members carried out intensively first hand survey visits to world automobile and auto-parts makers. More than hundred company visits and interviews are fulfilled by our research members in following countries ; USA, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Holland, Czech, Slovak, Main land of China, and Japan. The companies that we visited are Toyota, Nissan, MMC, and other car manufacturers and Denso, Aisin, Calsonic, Yazaki, NOK, and other parts suppliers.We have collected published data and statistics as well concerning Japanese and world automobile makers and suppliers, so that our research members could contribute papers to business magazines such as "Gekkan Jidosha Buhin "(Monthly Auto-Parts Industry) and others in addition to academic papers mentioned above.The study areas of our works are as follows :1)International comparative study about global management system and its performance in American, European and Japanese car manufacturers.2)Empirical study on Japanese automobile makers with special focus on their QCD management system and product development system ;3)Empirical study on Japanese first tier suppliers which are supporting the excellent performance of Japanese automobile makers with special focus on their management level in international comparison and on their second and third tier suppliers ;4)Empirical study on the world-wide diffusion of Japanese style production system, especially on the transfer of Japanese production system to oversea transplants, its introduction to foreign local makers and the reaction of local societies toward the Japanese system.