The Recent History of
Japanese Investment in the UK.
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This page lists suggested changes, improvements, new sources of information etc. When I come to the next revision of the core draft, I will incorporate as much as I can of these suggestions - assuming that I agree with the points made.
Fraser, Andrew - Invest in Britain Bureau - Jordan, Keith - R&D - SMMT (Society of Motor Manufacturing and Traders)
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The British Research of Japanese Companies (1997) (22/11/10)
This 64 page booklet was written by Louis Turner, David Ray and Tony Hayward for the Anglo-Japanese Economic Institute. It gives a detailed overview of the situation as seen in the middle of the 1990s. Please click here to go to it
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Case Study: Inward Investment in the UK - 1999 overview by Andrew Fraser (14/11/10)
When Andrew Fraser was Chief Executive of Invest UK, he wrote an extremely informative paper on the the evolution of British policy towards inward investment.
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The Role of the SMMT Industry Forum (12/11/10)
Keith Jordan has pointed me toward the very useful history of this Forum, which has been at the heart of the process of pushing Japanese best-practice manufacturing down into the British economy (and even wider). A very preliminary scan shows that this is an excellent piece of business history. Check it out on www.industryforum.co.uk/pdf/SMMTEnglishversion.pdf
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