Subcontracting and the Performance of Small and Medium Firms in Japan

By F. Kimura. 2002

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research

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Citations in the corpus

• Outsourcing, competitive capabilities and performance: an empirical study in service firms (2010, unknown): “Economies of scale enable companies to reduce costs and distribute the cost among customers, making the achievement of economies of scale an organizational reason for practicing outsourcing (Kimura, 2002).”
• Global sourcing and quality recalls: An empirical study of outsourcing-supplier concentration-product recalls linkages (2014, background): “While some empirical studies have found that outsourcing leads to lower operational costs (e.g., Jiang et al. 2006) or higher firm value (Hays et al, 2000), others have found no relation to profitability (Jiang et al. 2006, Kimura 2002).”
• DOES OFFSHORING PAY? FIRM‐LEVEL EVIDENCE FROM JAPAN (2010, unknown): “Kimura (2002) analyzes the relationship between subcontracting and productivity, but does not consider international subcontracting.”
• Job Losses, Outsourcing and Relocation: Empirical Evidence Using Microdata (2006, unknown): “The Japanese case was 7 also analysed by Kimura (2002).”
• Productivity Impacts of Offshoring and Outsourcing: A Review (2006, background): “Kimura (2002) and Tomiura (2004), for example, both estimate the determinants of outsourcing decisions and include productivity as one of their explanatory variables.”
• Are small firms less efficient? (2009, background): “On the other hand, the relative advantages of production for SMEs are more flexibility in production and they usually work as subcontractors for LEs in many Asian countries ( Kimura 2002 ), implying that this strategy should be helpful for SMEs to survive and to improve their technical efficiency.”
• Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability? (2004, unknown): “Specifically, Kimura (2002) does not find any evidence that subcontracting leads to higher profits in Japanese manufacturing firms.”