Kanatsu, Takashi
(2006)
Choice Of National Strategy And Industrial
Organization Comparing Airframe
Production Between Brazil And Japan.
International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), 2 (1).
pp. 1-27.
ISSN ISSN: 1823-6243
Abstract
This paper examines two reasons why the development of airframes as a
national aircraft industry1 have been met with more success in Brazil than in
Japan: First, Brazil's aircraft industry was nurtured by a unified government
administrative structure while in Japan the same industry instead became a
victim of inter-ministerial battles. Second, the Brazilian government
nurtured a single specialized national-champion firm, Embraer (Empresa
Brasileira de Aeronáutica S.A.)2, while the Japanese government relied on
the traditional consortium approach that epitomizes most Japanese postWorld War II industrial ventures. While usually successful, the consortium
approach did not do as well to build a domestic aircraft industry in Japan.
Making airplanes turned out to be an exception in Japanese business partly
also because of the involvement of several government agencies at varying
levels. In other Japanese industries, such as steel, semiconductors, and
computers, a single ministry, the Ministry of International Trade and
Industries (MITI) had managed these consortiums relatively successfully.
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