Statistical Facts about Cross-Border Outsourcing in Japan

Eiichi Tomiura

Chapter Chapter 5 in Cross-Border Outsourcing and Boundaries of Japanese Firms, 2018, pp 75-100 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents an overview of cross-border outsourcingCross-border outsourcing of Japanese manufacturing firms based on statistical data. We start from the presence of firms outsourcingOutsourcing production across national borderNational border , and then, compare them with firms outsourcingOutsourcing within the national borderNational border , as well as those sourcingSourcing from their own offshore affiliates. While we primarily focus on cross-sectional variations based on firm-level micro-data, we briefly refer to recent developments based on publicly available aggregate data.

Keywords: Offshore Affiliates; FDIForeign Direct Investment (FDI); Japanese Business Structure; Outsourcing Firms; Human capitalHuman Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:advchp:978-981-13-0035-6_5

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9789811300356

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-0035-6_5

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Advances in Japanese Business and Economics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().