This research clarifies “ (1) What are the interactions and (2) what are the promotion conditions in the transfer process of production technology systems and global information systems?” in multinational companies.
In the previous research on the transfer of global information systems, there is a discussion about whether to introduce the ERP system in a globally integrated manner or in a locally adapted manner. Especially in Japanese multinational companies, it has been pointed out that the Japanese management / production technology system and the ERP system are incompatible. Among them, the possibility of balancing the superiority of the ERP system with the production technology system such as on-site improvement, which is Japan’s strength, is discussed. Therefore, in this research, we conducted an exploratory case study of Japanese manufacturing companies in the transfer of these two production technology systems and the transfer of global information systems.
Existing research focuses on the direction of transfer between the parent company in the home country and the overseas subsidiary, and the discussion is limited to the transfer of the production technology system. However, in this research, the perspective of global information system was added as a new analytical framework to the discussion of the transfer direction of the production technology system, and the dynamics was analyzed. By doing so, we clarified the interaction between the global information system and the transfer of the production technology system. In addition, it can be said that it is an important contribution in this research that clarified the conditions that promote them.
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