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Title

Asian NIESs & the global economy : industrial restructuring & corporate strategy in the 1990s / edited by Gordon L. Clark & Won Bae Kim.

Publication

Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Clark, Gordon L.
• Kim, Won Bae.

Description

xviii, 327 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• Industrial restructuring in the Asian newly industrialized economies (NIEs) has become very important. Existing strategies may no longer deliver employment or income growth in many of the Asian NIEs' labor-intensive industries. The complex process of restructuring will involve economic adjustment and political realignment among industrial sectors and between industry managers and state policy makers.
• Asian NIEs and the Global Economy explains how the Asian NIEs have responded to the costs of success, including escalating real wages and prices, slowing growth rates of productivity, and increasing competition in markets they once dominated.
• This integrated collection of ten essays, based on a long-term project sponsored by the East-West Center introduces the reader to this timely issue by examining industrial restructuring in the most industrialized economies of East Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, and Taiwan. The contributors begin by describing the global context, theory, and practice of restructuring.
• Five case studies then examine important labor-intensive industries, including apparel, footwear, and electronics, all of which have had strong export markets. The final section draws out the broad implications of these studies and assesses the near-term future of the Asian NIEs as China undergoes rapid industrialization and enters the global marketplace.

Alternative Title

Asian NIES and the global economy

Subjects

• Business planning > East Asia > Case studies > Congresses
• Southeast Asia > Economic policy > Case studies > Congresses
• Economic history > 1990- > Congresses
• Business planning > Southeast Asia > Case studies > Congresses
• East Asia > Economic policy > Case studies > Congresses

Note

• Contains ten essays based on papers presented at an international conference, held in May 1993 at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-312) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Gordon L. Clark and Won Bae Kim -- 2. Changing Places in East Asia / Michael Webber -- 3. Corporate Strategy and Industrial Restructuring / Gordon L. Clark -- 4. Hong Kong: Unorganized Industrialism / Stephen W. K. Chiu and Tai-lok Lui -- 5. Singapore: Maneuvering in the Middle League / K. C. Ho -- 6. Seoul, Korea: City and Suburbs / Sam Ock Park -- 7. Pusan, Korea: Second-City Blues / Jung Duk Lim -- 8. Taiwan: Labor Shortage / Ching-lung Tsay -- 9. Patterns of Industrial Restructuring / Won Bae Kim -- 10. Asian NIEs in Transition / Gordon L. Clark and Won Bae Kim -- Appendix: Survey on Enterprise Strategy.

ISBN

080185105X (alk. paper)

LCCN

95021624

OCLC

• 503593410
• ocn503593410

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries