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The Impact of Offshore Manufacturing on Quality Perceptions

This study investigates use of ‘made-in’ country-of-origin information as a quality cue for a USA and a Japanese brand. We look at how consumers rate quality of a (hypothetical) calculator when informed that it is a Japanese brand, but was manufactured in either Japan, Korea, or the USA. Another version of the questionnaire asked the same questions, but for a USA brand, manufactured either in the USA, Japan, or Korea. The survey was conducted in the US, Korea, and Philippines. These represent key markets in the industrial West, the NICs, and the developing countries of East Asia. Generally, Americans give somewhat lower importance to the ‘made-in’ label than do consumers in Korea and Philippines. For the most part, moving production off-shore can lower the quality image somewhat, but the specific effects vary across different consumer markets.