Institutional Limits to the Internalization of Work Systems: A Comparative Study of Three Japanese MNCs in the UK
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This study adopts a multilevel comparative approach to investigating the degree to which Japanese work systems are implemented and internalized in the UK business system. The focus is on the limits to accepting continuous improvement schemes of Japanese multinational corporations. The paper addresses national and local institutional factors and firm-level organizational factors affecting implementation and internalization. It is based on in-depth case studies systematically comparing the adoption of Japanese work systems in two UK subsidiaries and in an AngloJapanese technical collaboration. The study concludes that firms face a double barrier to the internalization of work systems in the form of, first, institutional embeddedness at national and local level, and second, embeddedness of tacit work systems at firm level. Firms attempt locally to interpret work systems transferred from the source company.
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