Strategic Coupling: East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy
()
About this ebook
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.
Read more from Henry Wai Chung Yeung
Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStrategic Coupling: East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Strategic Coupling
Related ebooks
Structural Economics: Measuring Change in Technology, Lifestyles, and the Environment Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaking Money: How Taiwanese Industrialists Embraced the Global Economy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMilitants or Partisans: Labor Unions and Democratic Politics in Korea and Taiwan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCircles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond the Middle Kingdom: Comparative Perspectives on China’s Capitalist Transformation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHousing Reform and China’s Real Estate Industry: Review and Forecast Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsManipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Multi-Dimensions of Industrial Relations in the Asian Knowledge-Based Economies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPolicy Making in China Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJoint Ventures in the People's Republic of China: The Control of Foreign Direct Investment under Socialism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarkets Over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow Finance Is Shaping the Economies of China, Japan, and Korea Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Uneven Development under Hyperglobalisation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChinese Labor in a Korean Factory: Class, Ethnicity, and Productivity on the Shop Floor in Globalizing China Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMirrors of the Economy: National Accounts and International Norms in Russia and Beyond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAsia's Turning Point: An Introduction to Asia's Dynamic Economies at the Dawn of the New Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNew Chinese Migrants in Thailand and the Perceived Impact on Thai People Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEconomic Policy in Postwar Japan: Growth Versus Economic Democracy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInequality in the Workplace: Labor Market Reform in Japan and Korea Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGrowth and Policy in Developing Countries: A Structuralist Approach Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Institutional Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChina Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTruths and Half Truths: China’s Socio-Economic Reforms from 1978-2010 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Chinese Economy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow China Grows: Investment, Finance, and Reform Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Party, State, and Authority Relations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJapan's Administrative Elite Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Venture Capital State: The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Supercorporate: Distinction and Participation in Post-Hierarchy South Korea Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Politics For You
The Anarchist Cookbook Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The U.S. Constitution with The Declaration of Independence and The Articles of Confederation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prince Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fear: Trump in the White House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Closing of the American Mind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Republic by Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Capitalism and Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The January 6th Report Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Strategic Coupling
0 ratings0 reviews