Foreign versus Domestic Outsourcing : Firm-level Evidence on the Role of Technology

• Tomiura, Eiichi

抄録

type:postprint

The decision about where to outsource varies across firms and industries. General machinery heavily depends on domestic subcontractors, while outsourcing overseas is prevalent in apparel. Based on firm-level data explicitly distinguishing foreign outsourcing from domestic outsourcing in all manufacturing industries, this paper finds that firms tend to prefer domestic outsourcing to foreign outsourcing when they are R&D-intensive. This finding is consistent with incomplete contracting models, since technologically complex products are likely to require high-quality contracting environment and assembler-supplier proximity. This paper also finds that firms connected with computer networks are actively outsourcing.

収録刊行物

• International Review of Economics & Finance

  International Review of Economics & Finance 18 (2), 219-226, 2008

  Elsevier

キーワード

• foreign outsourcing
• heterogeneity
• firm-level data
• R&D
• network

詳細情報

• CRID: 1050564287801010560
• NII論文ID: 120001723293
• NII書誌ID: AA10925966
• ISSN: 10590560
• Web Site: http://hdl.handle.net/10131/4081
• 本文言語コード: en
• 資料種別: journal article
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