Cross-Border Outsourcing and Boundaries of Japanese Firms A Microdata Economic Analysis /

• Main Author: Tomiura, Eiichi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Advances in Japanese Business and Economics, 18
• Subjects: Industrial organization.; International economics.; Asia-Economic conditions.; Trade.; Business.; Commerce.; Industrial Organization.; International Economics.; Asian Economics.

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 t...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Overview of Japanese International Trade and Globalization of Japanese Firms
• 3 Measures of Cross-border Outsourcing
• 4 Japanese Statistics related with Cross-border Outsourcing
• 5 Statistical Facts about Cross-border Outsourcing in Japan
• 6 Productivity Premium of Cross-border Outsourcing Firms
• 7 Innovation, Development, and Outsourcing across National Borders
• 8 Capital, Labor, and Boundaries of Offshoring Firms
• 9 Barriers to Cross-border Outsourcing
• 10 Concluding Remarks
• References. .