@booklet {RePEc:pra:mprapa:5881,
	title = {Assembling Toyota in Portugal},
	number = {5881},
	year = {2003},
	note = {<p>n/a</p>
},
	month = {Jun},
	publisher = {University Library of Munich, Germany},
	type = {MPRA Paper},
	abstract = {<p>A lot has been written over the last decade with regard to Toyota and the productive model associated to it (toyota-ism). And more specifically concerning the \&quot;({\textellipsis}) best-seller that changed the... sociological world\&quot; (Castillo, 1998: 31). But the case of Salvador Caetano{\textquoteright}s Ovar Industrial Division (OID), that assembles Toyota light commercial vehicles in Portugal, allows us to put forward a sub-hypothesis that fits into the analysis schema proposed in the First GERPISA International Program {\textendash} \&quot;In short, GERPISA members considered that the plurality of models was much a plausible hypothesis deserving testing as that of the diffusion of a unique model ({\textellipsis})\&quot; (Boyer, Freyssenet, 2001: 42). So we add: and within Toyota itself, is it not true that different productive models co-exist {\textendash} especially when delocalised {\textendash} depending, amongst other factors, on the degree of Toyota participation {\textendash} in terms of capital and technology transfer {\textendash} in the local company (strong or weak) and on the markets to be reached (internal or external)? If so, what work system can we expect to find in a plant that presents such peculiar characteristics as this one?</p>
},
	keywords = {automotive industry, Japan, organization of work, Portugal},
	url = {http://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/5881.html},
	author = {Machado, Tiago and Ant{\'o}nio Moniz}
}
