Foreign outsourcing and the product cycle : evidence from micro data

• Tomiura, Eiichi

Abstract

type:preprint

This paper provides empirical evidence on the product cycle and the firm's make-or-buy decision by using a firm-level data set with a direct measure of foreign outsourcing. Across industries, foreign outsourcing tends to be inactive in R&D-intensive industries. Within each industry, products exported from the home country are on average significantly more R&D intensive than those outsourced to independent foreign firms. Products manufactured within subsidiaries at South tend to have medium R&D intensity. This ordering in R&D intensity is consistent with the theoretical prediction.

Journal

• Applied Economics Letters

  Applied Economics Letters 15 (13), 1019-1022, 2008

  Taylor & Francis

Keywords

• product cycle
• foreign outsourcing
• micro data

Details

• CRID: 1050845762777723136
• NII Article ID: 120001723301
• NII Book ID: AA11010169
• ISSN: 13504851
• ISSN: 14664291
• DOI: 10.1080/13504850600972360
• Web Site: http://hdl.handle.net/10131/4102
• Web Site: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13504850600972360
• Text Lang: en
• Article Type: journal article
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