Lean production systems, labor unions, and greenfield locations of the Korean new auto assembly plants and their suppliers

From: Economic Geography | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract: This article investigates why Korean auto assembly firms introduced "lean production systems" and chose greenfield locations as their new flexible production sites in the 1990s. I show that labor unions are important actors that directly affect firms' adoption and location strategies for lean production systems, by means of an analysis of Korean auto firms' managerial and locational strategies in response to adversarial labor relations. Korean firms' choice of greenfield locations for implementing lean production systems indicates that their desire to procure a malleable labor force ...

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