Responses to Regionalism: General Strategy and the Organisation of Production and Management in East Asia

The following three chapters report on how three leading Japanese automotive manufacturers are responding to regionalism in East Asia. As outlined in Chapter 1, data was collated through use of questionnaires and interviews held in Japan and elsewhere in the region with corporate executives. This qualitative data is supported by company and industry statistics where appropriate. Chapter 6 first builds upon the industry level overview found in Chapter 5 with a brief overview of the firms surveyed1 before offering some comment on the construction and nature of the questions asked. The main body of the chapter then reports these responses for each firm before a final concluding section. Both Chapters 7 and 8 follow a similar format. Taken as a whole these three chapters afford a valuable insight into how key actors in East Asia are reacting to the transformation of the region’s political economy as outlined in previous chapters.