<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Machado, Tiago</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Moniz, António</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Assembling Toyota in Portugal</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Automotive industry</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Japan</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">organization of work</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Portugal</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2003</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jun</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/5881.html</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5881</style></number><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">University Library of Munich, Germany</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;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 &amp;quot;(…) best-seller that changed the... sociological world&amp;quot; (Castillo, 1998: 31). But the case of Salvador Caetano’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 – &amp;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 (…)&amp;quot; (Boyer, Freyssenet, 2001: 42). So we add: and within Toyota itself, is it not true that different productive models co-exist – especially when delocalised – depending, amongst other factors, on the degree of Toyota participation – in terms of capital and technology transfer – 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?&lt;/p&gt;
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