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This fourth volume in the Studies of Small and Medium Sized
Enterprises in East Asia series focuses on regional and sectoral
dimensions in a number of regional economies and economic sectors.
The contributors place special emphasis on the importance of SME
networking and clustering initiatives and activities. They argue
that these initiatives support and nurture the global
competitiveness of local SMEs in various economic sectors across
the East Asian region. The book goes on to illustrate the
increasing recognition that important local, regional and sectoral
dimensions of SMEs, activities require their own specific micro
policy measures. This is significant as the vitality of many local
regional economies depends upon the activities of these local SMEs.
The importance and inherent potential of SMEs as small but
significant players in national economies and industries is
increasingly recognised by policymakers and scholars around the
world. Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in East Asia will
therefore strongly appeal to both academics and practitioners
involved with business and management, Asian studies, industrial
organization and entrepreneurship.
The first East Asia Summit in 2005 prompted discussions of
enlargement of ASEAN free trade agreements to include all major
trading blocs and their regional and global implications. In this
timely and original study, Tran Van Hoa and Charles Harvie explore
the likely effects of new regional development. With more than half
of the world's consumption and production market, well-defined
trade agreements in Asia remain crucial to the economic growth and
stability of the area. This book contains scholarly and
well-researched contributions from internationally renowned experts
from ASEAN, East and South Asia and Oceania who discuss this major
new development and its impact on trade, investment, services,
development, industry, poverty and economic relations. An important
collection of new research, this volume will be used by economists,
trade experts, academics, students, government advisers,
policymakers and all those interested in these significant
contemporary developments and their far-ranging implications in an
enlarged Asia.
East Asian countries - currently the most dynamic region of the
global economy - have recently pursued trade liberalization through
the adoption of various forms of bilateral and plurilateral Free
Trade Agreements (FTAs). The book explores the key issues and
possible outcomes arising from this departure from the region's
traditional multilateral approach to trade liberalization.
Implications of this new approach for the region as a whole, and
key participating individual economies and blocs of economies, are
emphasized. New East Asian Regionalism includes up-to-date analysis
of the most recent developments in FTAs between countries in East
Asia, as well as those involving countries from outside the region.
Furthermore, the book includes invaluable projections on economic
and welfare outcomes of regional trade agreements, using the very
latest empirical techniques, and data. The book also considers the
implications arising from closer financial integration in the
region. This book will be warmly welcomed by scholars of regional
science, international economics and business, as well as Asian
studies. Policymakers at both the national government and
international organization level will also find this book of great
interest.
Korea has played, and will increasingly play, an important role in
the future development of the South East Asian region, including
the expansion of regional economic cooperation and interregional
trade. Indeed Korea has been a leading proponent of the idea of
ASEAN+3. Clearer understanding of this economy, its major
contemporary policy and reform issues and its future, are of
particular interest from both regional and global perspectives.A
remarkable recovery of the post-crisis Korean economy occurred, but
questions over its sustainability remain. Korea, therefore, stands
at an important economic crossroads. This opportune book draws upon
the knowledge of a wide range of experienced Korean economists and
specialists to cover in detail many specific sectors and policy
areas, ranging from the key reform sectors - financial, corporate,
and public and the labour market, to that of monetary and exchange
rate policies. The role and contribution of the 'new economy' is
also examined along with developments in Korea's trade and foreign
direct investment, free trade agreement policy, inter-Korean
economic relations, and the core ingredients of a 'new' growth and
economic development paradigm. Scholars and researchers of
comparative economics as well as more specifically contemporary
Korean and Asian economic, development and financial studies will
find this book of great interest.
The 1997 financial and economic crisis in East Asia provided the
catalyst for an important reappraisal of the Small and Medium sized
Enterprise (SME) sector across the region. In this timely book, a
distinguished group of contributors discusses the role of SMEs in
the globalisation of the East Asian economies, and assess how the
financial crisis has impacted on them. They focus on a number of
key aspects of SMEs in the region, including: * financing issues *
the role of entrepreneurship * the diffusion of technology in the
region * Chinese small businesses * SME requirements for
information technology * the opportunities afforded by electronic
commerce * regional labour markets and their impact on SMEs.
Globalisation and SMEs in East Asia will appeal to academics and
researchers of Asian economies and studies, globalisation and those
interested in industrial organisation.
This volume presents detailed analyses of the role and significance
of Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the economies of
East Asia. Various aspects of SME operations are studied,
including: * the role and significance of networking in the conduct
of business * the contribution of culture to business acumen and
entrepreneurialism * human resource development constraints and
issues * technology transfer processes * the utilisation and
application of information technology by SMEs * the impact of
electronic commerce * the policy framework needed to stimulate the
growth of the SME sector. A common framework is adopted between the
different studies, enabling substantive lessons to be derived and
policy measures to be identified. The Role of SMEs in National
Economies in East Asia will be of interest to academics and
researchers of industrial organisation, Asian economics and Asian
studies as well as policymakers concerned with SME growth in the
area.
International production networks in manufacturing, particularly in
machinery industries, have rapidly developed over the last two
decades, resulting in dramatic increases in intra-regional and
intra-industry trade, providing a key source of regional growth,
integration and development in East Asia. This book provides a
better understanding on how to effectively further increase SME
participation in East Asian production networks, and in doing so
identifies key challenges and issues that they need to address.
This book aims to not only fill the theory-practice gap, but also
to lay solid foundations for designing national arrangements and a
regional institutional frameworks to further encourage and support
SME engagement and participation in regional and global production
networks. The book contains several country case studies and by
drawing upon individual country experiences, at various stages of
economic development, this book demonstrates the varying difficulty
faced by SMEs in ASEAN member countries attempting to participate
in regional production networks and highlighting differences in
needs and policy priorities. This book offers both a more focused
theme on the assessment of globalization and a rather unique
approach by focusing upon the particular importance of SMEs, and by
utilizing micro-level data at the firm or plant level. Its policy
insights and the richness and uniqueness of the empirical findings
will make the book an invaluable contribution to understanding East
Asian production networks.
This third book in the series focuses on how small and medium sized
enterprises (SMEs) contribute to achieving and sustaining growth
and performance in their economies, as well as the ways in which
governments can assist and enhance that contribution. This is of
particular concern given the trauma suffered by East Asian
economies in the wake of the financial and economic crisis of
1997-98. Faced with the need to restructure and reform their
economies and thereby achieve a firm foundation for future
sustainable growth, many East Asian countries actively pursued SME
growth, focusing on the encouragement of entrepreneurialism in the
private sector. Drawing on the insights of a wide range of SME
experts, the book provides a broad coverage of important aspects of
SMEs, including: the contribution of micro-enterprises to economic
recovery and poverty alleviation measurement and evaluation issues
managing knowledge development ethical values in SMEs the
internationalisation process entry mode decisions in export markets
technological sourcing use of the Internet. Presenting a
contemporary analysis of SME developments in East Asia, both
academics and policymakers will find Sustaining Growth and
Performance in East Asia of great interest.
International production networks in manufacturing, particularly in
machinery industries, have rapidly developed over the last two
decades, resulting in dramatic increases in intra-regional and
intra-industry trade, providing a key source of regional growth,
integration and development in East Asia. This book provides a
better understanding on how to effectively further increase SME
participation in East Asian production networks, and in doing so
identifies key challenges and issues that they need to address.
This book aims to not only fill the theory-practice gap, but also
to lay solid foundations for designing national arrangements and a
regional institutional frameworks to further encourage and support
SME engagement and participation in regional and global production
networks. The book contains several country case studies and by
drawing upon individual country experiences, at various stages of
economic development, this book demonstrates the varying difficulty
faced by SMEs in ASEAN member countries attempting to participate
in regional production networks and highlighting differences in
needs and policy priorities. This book offers both a more focused
theme on the assessment of globalization and a rather unique
approach by focusing upon the particular importance of SMEs, and by
utilizing micro-level data at the firm or plant level. Its policy
insights and the richness and uniqueness of the empirical findings
will make the book an invaluable contribution to understanding East
Asian production networks.
This book focuses on strategies to achieve economic diversification
in Asian landlocked countries. It does so by analysing the impact
of the Dutch disease, non-resource firm heterogeneity, trade
logistics operations, trade facilitation, aid for trade, small and
medium-sized enterprises, and foreign direct investment. Offering a
wide range of expert views and opinions, research findings,
information and data, the book will be of value to policy makers
and students of trade and development economics.
This book focuses on strategies to achieve economic diversification
in Asian landlocked countries. It does so by analysing the impact
of the Dutch disease, non-resource firm heterogeneity, trade
logistics operations, trade facilitation, aid for trade, small and
medium-sized enterprises, and foreign direct investment. Offering a
wide range of expert views and opinions, research findings,
information and data, the book will be of value to policy makers
and students of trade and development economics.
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