期刊名称：International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management
印刷版ISSN：2182-7796
电子版ISSN：2182-7788
出版年度：2018
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：61-70
出版社：SciKA
摘要：The purpose of this paper is an analysis of survival in the Japanese information service industry. Information servicefirms are generally classified into two typical patterns. One is the group of independent firms such as software vendors,and the other is the group of non-independent such as subsidiaries established by spinning off and so on. We used asample of 334 firms in Japan and analyzed by Kaplan-Meier estimator method and Cox proportional hazard regressionmodel in order to investigate the difference of survival between these two groups and/or among other attributes. As aresult, the lifespan of the information service firms significantly depends on the degree of system integration sales ratio,software development sales ratio, and entrusted processing sales ratio. On the contrary, property of non-independenceand high sales ratio with main customers have a negative influence on their survival rates, i.e. lifespan. The paperdiscusses these results and offers some managerial implications, and future research opportunities are provided.
关键词：Survival analysis; Kaplan-Meier estimator; Cox proportional hazard regression model; information service industry.
