日本自動車産業における系列取引関係の分化

分析視座の時間的・空間的拡張

抄録

This research explores why some keiretsu have been maintained while others have been dismantled in the Japanese auto industry. Drawing on Asanuma's (1989, 1994) argument that the relation-specific skill consists of the surface layer and the basic layer, we propose that the keiretsu that could have the suppliers develop and improve the basic-layer skill and thus enable them to supply for non-keiretsu OEMs would survive. Some preliminary empirical evidence to support the proposition, derived from the panel data on OEM-supplier transactions for 54 components over thirty years from 1984 to 2008 in the Japanese auto industry, is presented.