• Title/Summary/Keyword: subcontracting firm. locational pattern.

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Collaborative Relationship and Spatial Features on the Large Firm Based Production Linkages: The Case of the Samsung Electronics and its Subcontracting Firms (대기업 주도 생산 연계의 협력 관계와 공간적 특성 - 삼성전자 반도체사업본부와 그 협력업체를 사례로 -)

  • Kang Hyun-soo
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.217-236
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    • 2005

  • This paper aims to analysis the production linkage relationships between large firm and its subcontracting firms, especially focus on the spatial network and collaboration network. For the purpose of it, the division of semiconductor in Samsung Electronics and its most important subcontracting firms are picked up for the case study. The empirical study show that the location distribution pattern of Samsung Electronic's subcontracting firms is concentrated very highly on the Kyeong-Ki Province and Chung-Nam Province in Korea, which is the location sites of Samsung Electronic's key plants as well as the best environment for business in Korea. And the major subcontracting firms seems to be in the hierarchic and vertical relationship with Samsung Electronics rather than horizontal and good collaboration network in this case.

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