Lean production, subcontracting, and industrial development: The case of the Brazilian automobile industry

Over the last several decades, manufacturers in the developed countries have adopted organizational techniques collectively referred to as lean production. An essential element of the lean production model is the specialization and decentralization of production decisions throughout the supply network. The principal firm delegates production and product development to its suppliers, who become specialists in components or subassemblies of the final product. There may be many such tiers of principal-subcontractor relations. Contracts and relations between the principal and supplier are long-term, and thus allow for free exchange of information and the development of highly specific assets. The principal and supplier firms maintain an interdependent relationship, where the success of the principal is dependent on the success of its suppliers; thus the supplier's development is in the interest of the principal contracting firm.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Peebles, Glenn Harold

Contributors dc:contributor

• Baer, Werner W.

• Business Administration, Management
• Economics, Commerce-Business

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1995 Peebles, Glenn Harold

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9624458
AAI9624458

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21850