1. INTRODUCTION Toyota is Japan’s biggest car company and the second largest in the world after General Motors. It produces around eight million vehicles per year‚ about a million fewer than the number produced by General Motors. Toyota markets vehicles in over 160 countries. The company dominates the market in Japan‚ with about 45% of all new cars registered in 2004 being Toyotas. Toyota also has entered in the uropean and North American market . It has significant market shares in several fast-growing
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Content 1. Introduction 2 2. Ownership advantages 3 2.1 Toyota Production System (TPS) and Just-In-Time (JIT) management 3 2.2 Resource – based view: core competencies of Toyota 4 3. Internalization advantages 6 4. Location advantages 7 4. Conclusion 8 References 9 Appendix 10 1. Introduction As the leading auto manufacturing company‚ Toyota is not only the symbol of Japan‚ but also the one of the best business models for MNCs expansion overseas. Since the company was established
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1. The main reasons of Toyota’s recall issues Lately‚ people most concerned about the recall event which happened on the world’s largest vehicle manufacturers‚ Toyota. This event affect all over the world including China‚ USA‚ Europe. The incident makes the corporate brand image dropped and also loss the consumer confidence. Why this event did occur? During the research and analysis‚ the major cause of Toyota’s recall is the quality issues. For example the accelerator pedal problem‚ many different
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Introduction Toyota has grown to a large multinational corporation from where it started and expanded to different worldwide markets and countries by becoming the largest seller of cars in the beginning of 2007‚ the most profitable automaker ($11 billion in 2006) along with increasing sales in‚ among other countries‚ the United States. The world headquarters of Toyota are located in its home country in Toyota‚ Aichi‚ Japan. Its subsidiary‚ Toyota Financial Services sells financing and participates
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The Toyota Way From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The Toyota Way is a set of principles and behaviors that underlie the Toyota Motor Corporation’s managerial approach and production system. Toyota first summed up its philosophy‚ values and manufacturing ideals in 2001‚ calling it “The Toyota Way 2001.” It consists of principles in two key areas: 1) continuous improvement and 2) respect for people:[1][2][3][4] |Contents
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Corporate Communication Toyota Case Study Question number 1: Read the Toyota case study and answer the following question: Consider the vision articulated by Toyota and its alignment with the company’s image among external stakeholders and the company’s internal culture. Is there sufficient alignment between vision‚ culture and image? What gaps emerged and how can Toyota address these gaps? When examining the values of a company‚ one must take into account the different metrics which make
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THE LATEST OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE AVAILABLE AND THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT IN ICT NAME:NUR DAYANA BT MOHD ZUBIR CLASS:4MB2 TEACHER:PUAN ROSEMAINI SCHOOL:SMKA KUALA ABANG LA2.S05.1 1.0 Introduction Meaning of open source software Open source software (OSS) is defined as computer software for which the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that meets the Open Source Definition or that is in the public domain. This
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state regulations. Reason why companies take on CSR is also being discussed in the literature in terms of the specific initiatives under which CSR may fall. Ways of describing these rationales varies‚ from the more skeptical view of cause-related marketing to a more generous attribution of genuine socially responsible business practices (Kotler & Lee‚ 2005). To ascertain how CSR is implemented in organizations‚ some researchers uses a developmental framework to show change in awareness‚ strategy
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Toyota Recall 1. WHAT ARE THE PRIMARY CAUSES OF TOYOTA’S RECALL PROBLEM? The primary cause of Toyota’s recall was outsourcing their pedal manufacturing and assembly. To this day Toyota has recalled an estimated 2.3 million cars in the U.S. affected by the accelerator assembly problem‚ 4.2 million vehicles to fix the floor mat issue and out of all those vehicles 1.7 million of them were involved in both recalls (Linebaugh & Shirouzu‚ 2010). Amongst them are the 2008-2010 Sequoia sport utility vehicles
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