Asia in Japan's Embrace: Building a Regional Production Alliance

Hatch, Walter; Yamamura, Kozo

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“…This viewpoint reflects many earlier debates on the role of MNCs in host‐country economies and questions of dependence (Moran ), and, in the East Asian context, these concerns have centered on the dominant position of Japanese corporations and their investments in Asian countries under the “flying geese” pattern (Hatch and Yamamura ; Hayter and Edgington ).…”

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TheIn Situ Upgrading of Japanese Electronics Firms inMalaysian Industrial Clusters

Edgington

Hayter

2013

Economic Geography

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The ability of clusters generated by direct foreign investment (DFI) in emerging economies to generate sustained, value‐added growth is a matter of controversy. This article assesses this debate with reference to the role of Japanese electronics multinational corporations (MNCs) in the development of clusters in Malaysia. Conceptually, we present a typology of DFI‐generated industrial clusters that represent increasing degrees of commitment to local value creation and upgrading. Empirically, we conducted a survey of 10 Japanese firms in Malaysia that examined whether or not their factories increased technological upgrading, increasingly embedded their operations through using local skilled labor and supply firms, and responded positively to national policies and cluster‐governance measures supporting the electronics industry. We found that Japanese firms had clearly moved beyond simple assembly‐based to embedded clustering but had not progressed further to technology‐intensive behavior because of the poor technological environment in Malaysia, as well as Japanese MNCs' strategies that depend on technology from headquarters. Nonetheless, Japanese MNCs were sufficiently embedded in Malaysia to upgrade production to digital consumer products, and semiconductor assembly has flourished, warding off competition from China and low‐cost locations in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. At the end of the study period, Malaysia remained an attractive location for Japanese electronics MNCs.

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TheIn Situ Upgrading of Japanese Electronics Firms inMalaysian Industrial Clusters

Edgington

Hayter

2013

Economic Geography

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“…The recession was one of many fluctuations in a longer pattern of growth that started with Japan in the 1950s and 1960s (Hatch & Yamamura, 1996). At the time, Japan was leading growth in East and Southeast Asia, but also pulling the four ''Tiger'' economies (South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore) along through a regional division of labor.…”

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City-to-city networks: Asian perspectives on key elements and areas for success

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Marcotullio

2009

Habitat International

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“…Third, this has not stopped Japanese aid and investment from playing a crucial role in economically restructuring and integrating the region, however. On the contrary, one of the most important consequences of the Second World War was to redefine Japan as a new sort of trading state, whose primary influence has been exercised through economic rather than strategic power (Hatch and Yamamura, 1996; Rosecrance, 1986).…”

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Geopolitics and the Making of Regions: The Fall and Rise of East Asia

Beeson

2009

Political Studies

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There is a good deal of scepticism about the prospects for regionalism in East Asia. There are, however, grounds for supposing that the outlook for regional integration in East Asia is brighter than it has ever been, partly as a consequence of the rise of China. This article explains why an earlier attempt to integrate the region under Japanese imperialism failed, why US foreign policy has effectively foreclosed any possibility of East Asian integration up to now and why it may be accelerating as a consequence of China's growing economic and political impact on the region. To explain these different historical experiences I draw on a form of critical geopolitics which has recently emerged in economic and political geography and which can usefully be incorporated into international relations scholarship.

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Asia in Japan's Embrace: Building a Regional Production Alliance

Cited by 36 publications

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TheIn Situ Upgrading of Japanese Electronics Firms inMalaysian Industrial Clusters

TheIn Situ Upgrading of Japanese Electronics Firms inMalaysian Industrial Clusters

City-to-city networks: Asian perspectives on key elements and areas for success

Geopolitics and the Making of Regions: The Fall and Rise of East Asia

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