Kurokawa, Futoshi; Nishimura, Kiyohiko G. - In: Revue de l'OFCE 97 bis (2006) 5, pp. 351-371
comprehensive data of information service industries in Japan. We focus on the degree of modularisation and resulting outsourcing … productivity-hindering remnants of traditional main-contractor-subcontractor relations still prevail in Japanese information … service industries. We also find diseconomies of scale in software development, suggesting less efficient communication among …