Strategic Coupling

East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy

Henry Wai-Chung Yeung (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2016
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-0256-3 (ISBN)

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In Strategic Coupling, Henry Wai-chung Yeung examines economic development and state-firm relations in East Asia, focusing in particular on South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. As a result of the massive changes of the last twenty-five years, new explanations must be found for the economic success and industrial transformation in the region. State-assisted startups and incubator firms in East Asia have become major players in the manufacture of products with a global reach: Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision has assembled more than 500 million iPhones, for instance, and South Korea's Samsung provides the iPhone's semiconductor chips and retina displays.

Drawing on extensive interviews with top executives and senior government officials, Yeung argues that since the late 1980s, many East Asian firms have outgrown their home states, and are no longer dependent on state support; as a result the developmental state has lost much of its capacity to steer and direct industrialization. We cannot read the performance of national firms as a direct outcome of state action. Yeung calls for a thorough renovation of the still-dominant view that states are the primary engine of industrial transformation. He stresses action by national firms and traces various global production networks to incorporate both firm-specific activities and the international political economy. He identifies two sets of dynamics in these national-global articulations known as strategic coupling: coevolution in the confluence of state, firm, and global production networks, and the various strategies pursued by East Asian firms to attain competitive positions in the global marketplace.

Henry Wai-chung Yeung is Professor of Economic Geography and Co-Director of GPN@NUS Centre at the National University of Singapore. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (UK). He is the author of Transnational Corporations and Business Networks, Entrepreneurship and the Internationalisation of Asian Firms and Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era and coauthor of Global Production Networks.

1. East Asian Development in the New Global Economy
2. Transformation of State- Firm Relations in the 1980s and the 1990s
3. Strategic Coupling: East Asian Firms in Global Production Networks
4. Strategic Partnership in Global Electronics
5. Industrial Specialization and Market Leadership in Marine Engineering and Semiconductors
6. Emergence of East Asian Lead Firms
7. Beyond the Developmental State: A New Global Political Economy of Industrial Transformation

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Zusatzinfo	27 tables, 4 charts - 27 Tables, unspecified
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-5017-0256-4 / 1501702564
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-0256-3 / 9781501702563
Zustand	Neuware