<title>Abstract</title> Japanese companies represent a particularly dynamic sector of UK manufacturing industry. High levels of Japanese investment, particularly during the mid-1980s, prompted research into many aspects of Japanese operations such as work and management organisation, personnel management and...

This paper analyses the reported performance of foreign-owned manufacturing subsidiaries in the UK between 1994 and 1998. The paper is set in the context of uncertainty about the performance of some foreign-owned sectors of UK manufacturing and the implications of this performance for the...