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889503
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Tomiura, Eiichi,1961-
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Cross-border outsourcing and boundaries of Japanese firms : : a microdata economic analysis /\ Eiichi Tomiura.
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| Publication Statement
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Singapore :: Springer,, [2018]
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| Series Statement
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Advances in Japanese business and economics ;; 18
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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9789811300356
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: 9789811343148
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: 9811300364
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9789811300349
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9811300348
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| Contents
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Intro; Preface; Contents; About the Author; 1 Introduction; Abstract; 1.1 Our Main Theme and the Background; 1.2 Terminology; 1.3 Structure of This Book; 2 Overview of Japanese International Trade and Globalization of Japanese Firms; Abstract; 2.1 Japan's Share in the World Economy; 2.2 Expansions of Japanese Foreign Trade; 2.3 Rising Share of Inputs in Japanese Exports; 2.4 Shifting Production to Offshore Locations by Japanese Firms; 2.5 Integration with Asian Countries; 2.6 Summary and Discussions; 3 Measures of Cross-Border Outsourcing; Abstract; 3.1 Business Cases; 3.2 Input Trade; 3.2.1 Imported Inputs in I-O Tables; 3.2.2 Trade in Value-Added; 3.2.3 Trade in Tasks; 3.3 Trade in Goods; 3.3.1 Exports of Machine Parts; 3.3.2 Processing Trade; 3.3.3 "Factoryless Goods Producers"; 3.4 Trade in Services; 3.5 Intra-firm Trade; 3.6 Firm-level Data Outside Japan; 3.7 Summary and Discussions; 4 Japanese Statistics Related with Cross-Border Outsourcing; Abstract; 4.1 Basic Survey of Commercial and Manufacturing Structure and Activities; 4.2 Basic Survey of Japanese Business Structure and Activities; 4.3 Survey of Corporate Offshore Activities; 4.4 Survey on Overseas Business Activities; 4.5 Census of Manufacture; 4.6 Commercial Data Sources; 4.7 Summary and Discussions; 5 Statistical Facts about Cross-Border Outsourcing in Japan; Abstract; 5.1 Firms Outsourcing Across National Border; 5.1.1 Production Outsourcing; 5.1.2 Service Outsourcing; 5.1.3 Outsourcing Disaggregated by Task and Destination; 5.2 Cross-Border versus Domestic Outsourcing; 5.3 Cross-Border Outsourcing by Globalized Firms; 5.4 Share of Outsourced Tasks; 5.5 Summary and Discussions; 6 Productivity Premium of Cross-Border Outsourcing Firms; Abstract; 6.1 Theoretical Predictions and Productivity Measures; 6.1.1 Theoretical Prediction of Productivity Ordering; 6.1.2 Measures of Productivity; 6.2 Comparisons of Firms Outsourcing Within versus Across National Borders; 6.2.1 Gap in Productivity; 6.2.2 Premium in Other Firm Attributes; 6.3 Comparisons of Outsourcers with FDI Firms; 6.3.1 Foreign Outsourcers and FDI Firms; 6.3.2 Comparisons Including Exporters; 6.4 Comparisons of Firms with Different Scopes of Foreign Outsourcing; 6.5 Outsourcing Across National Border and Across Firm Boundary; 6.6 Summary and Discussions; 7 Innovation, Development, and Outsourcing Across National Borders; Abstract; 7.1 R & D Intensity and the Choice between Foreign versus Domestic Outsourcing; 7.2 R & D Intensity and the Choice of Intra-firm Offshore Sourcing; 7.3 Outsourcing and North-South Technology Gap; 7.3.1 Outsourcing in the Product Cycle; 7.3.2 Choice of Offshore Production Sites; 7.4 Summary and Discussions; 8 Capital, Labor, and Boundaries of Offshoring Firms; Abstract; 8.1 Capital-Labor Ratio of Outsourcing Firms Compared with In-Sourcing Firms; 8.1.1 Theoretical Prediction.
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This book is the first book that provides comprehensive economic analysis of cross-border outsourcing by Japanese manufacturing firms based on microdata. Previous literature on many other countries has often been constrained by limited data availability about outsourcing, but research contained in this book exploits unique firm-level data and directly tests theoretical hypotheses derived from new firm heterogeneity trade models. Productivity, capital-labor ratio and R & D intensity are examined at the firm level. While rich empirical results in this book convince us how powerful the orthodox economic theory is in understanding Japanese firms, detailed firm-level findings, combined with accessible and concise overviews of Japanese international trade, are widely informative for international economists, experts of Japanese society, business strategists for offshoring, and policy makers in both developed and developing economies. This book further discusses how boundaries of Japanese firms, traditionally sheltered by language and cultural barriers, are affected by outsourcing decisions simultaneously crossing national borders and firm boundaries. The interpretations of Japanese characteristics in outsourcing have deep implications for understanding drastically changing Japanese business amid globalization.
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Contracting out-- Japan.
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Japanese-- Employment-- Foreign countries.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Industrial Management.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Management Science.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Management.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Organizational Behavior.
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Contracting out.
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Distributive industries.
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Economic systems structures.
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Economics of industrial organisation.
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Employees.
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International economics.
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Japan, Officials and employees, Foreign countries.
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Japan.
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| Dewey Classification
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658.4058
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HD2365
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