Multinational corporations and the emerging network economy in Asia and the Pacific
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Multinational corporations and the emerging network economy in Asia and the Pacific
(Pacific trade and development conference series)
Routledge, 2011, c2008
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Multinational Corporations and the Emerging Network Economy in Asia and the Pacific delves into the ongoing rise of a global economy anchored in a web of inter-firm production networks and the role played by multinational corporations in the process. It considers the strategies and business models corporations have adopted lately to face today's highly competitive global markets, especially outsourcing and offshoring, focusing on the modalities observed in Asia Pacific and the Pacific Rim at large.
Since their inception, corporations have undergone a series of fundamental changes; each has corresponded to a given era of industrial development and has given rise to a particular type of government policy response. The book addresses these timely issues and other such as the transformation of global production networks into global innovation networks, the link between corporate and national innovation strategies and movement up the global production value chain, and the fragmentation of production and the resulting increase in component and sub-assembly trade in the region. It also takes up the emergence of multinational corporations from developing countries and the efforts aimed at forging basic rules of corporate social responsibility and developing sound institutions for building a working framework of corporate governance in the Pacific.
Written by some of the region's most eminent and influential economists and political scientists, this volume will appeal to students and scholars working in the field of Asia Pacific studies as well as to businesspersons and policymakers taking decisions in the region.
Table of Contents
Multinational Corporations and the Economy of Networks: An Overview Juan J. Palacios.
Eras of Enterprise Globalisation: From Vertical Integration to Virtualisation and Beyond Sandor Boyson and Chaodong Han
Innovation Offshoring: Root Causes of Asia's Rise and Policy Implications Dieter Ernst
Information and Communication Technologies and Inter-Corporate Production Networks: Global Information Technology and Local Guanxi in the Taiwanese Personal Computer Industry Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason Dedrick, William Foster and Zhang Cheng
The Creation of Regional Production Networks in Asia Pacific: The Case of Japanese Multinational Corporations Shujiro Urata
The Internationalisation of Firm Activities and its Economic Impacts: The Case of South Korea Sanghoon Ahn, Siwook Lee and Cheonsik Woo
The Rise of Mexican Multinationals: Driving Forces and Limiting Factors Victor Lopez Villafane and Clemente Ruiz Duran
Emerging Transnational Corporations from East Asia: The Case of Mainland China Edward K.Y. Chen and Ping Lin
Multinational Production Networks and the New Geo-Economic Division of Labour in Pacific Rim Countries Prema-chandra Athukorala
Multinational Corporations and Pacific Regionalism Philippa Dee
Governing Multinational Corporations in the Pacific Robert Scollay
Corporate Social Responsibility and Capital Accumulation Djisman Simanjuntak
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