Foreign ownership, technology and electronics exports from Malaysia and Thailand

Rasiah, Rajah

doi:10.1016/j.asieco.2003.10.006

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“…As firms with experience are regarded as enjoying greater experimental and tacit knowledge, age is considered to be positively associated with the probability of exporting and the building of capabilities (Rasiah 2003).…”

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“…5 Rasiah (2003Rasiah ( , 2004) employs a simple process capability measure consisting of four items: equipment, machinery, information technology components and quality control instruments. Furthermore, equipment and machinery are measured by logistic variables based on their average age, ICT is measured using a Likert scale of 1 to 5, and quality control by a dummy variable.…”

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“…However, R&D expenditures, a human resource capability variable, and the country dummies were not significant. Rasiah (2003 and2004) was probably the first to test for the influence of both innovation proxies. Nonetheless, a sample bias towards exporters may be an issue since all the surveyed Thai and Philippines firms are exporters.…”

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“…Using a pooled sample of 75 electronics firms in Malaysia and Thailand, Rasiah (2003) tested both a process TI and R&D expenditures in addition to control variables (e.g., foreign ownership, wages, age, and a country dummy). R&D expenditures (10% level), the process TI (1% level), and foreign ownership (10% level) were positive and significant.…”

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Understanding Innovation in Production Networks in East Asia

Wignaraja

2013

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Asian Development Bank InstituteThe Working Paper series is a continuation of the formerly named Discussion Paper series; the numbering of the papers continued without interruption or change. ADBI's working papers reflect initial ideas on a topic and are posted online for discussion. ADBI encourages readers to post their comments on the main page for each working paper (given in the citation below). Some working papers may develop into other forms of publication. AbstractThis paper explores the "black box" of innovation in the electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping exercise of technological capabilities and an econometric analysis of exporting in the People's Republic of China (PRC), Thailand, and the Philippines. Technologybased approaches to trade offer a plausible explanation for firm-level exporting behavior and complement the literature on production networks. The econometric results confirm the importance of foreign ownership and innovation in increasing the probability of exporting in electronics. Higher levels of skills, managers' education, and capital also matter in the PRC as well as accumulated experience in Thailand. Furthermore, a technology index composed of technical functions performed by firms (to represent technological capabilities) emerges as a more robust indicator of innovation than the research and development (R&D) to sales ratio. Accordingly, technological effort in electronics in these countries mostly focuses on assimilating and using imported technologies rather than formal R&D by specialized engineers.

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2013

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“…The research on Malaysian and Thai firms was inspired by different theoretical insights and empirical contributions. These include: theoretical work by Glass and Saggi (2001) on the links between participation in production networks, profits, and technology upgrading; empirical work by Görg and Hanley (2011) on outsourcing and research and development (R&D) activities in Irish firms; and the literature on technological capabilities in developing countries conceptualized by Lall (1987 and1992) with empirical work on a TI by James and Romijn (1997), Wignaraja (2002Wignaraja ( , 2008Wignaraja ( , and 2012a, Rasiah (2003), and Iammarino et al (2008).…”

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Production Networks, Profits, and Innovative Activity: Evidence from Malaysia and Thailand

Wignaraja¹,

Krüger²,

Tuazon³

2016

Production Networks and Enterprises in East Asia

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Asian Development Bank InstituteThe Working Paper series is a continuation of the formerly named Discussion Paper series; the numbering of the papers continued without interruption or change. ADBI's working papers reflect initial ideas on a topic and are posted online for discussion. ADBI encourages readers to post their comments on the main page for each working paper (given in the citation below). Some working papers may develop into other forms of publication. The views expressed in this paper are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of ADBI, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), its Board of Directors, or the governments they represent. ADBI does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this paper and accepts no responsibility for any consequences of their use. Terminology used may not necessarily be consistent with ADB official terms.Asian Development Bank Institute Kasumigaseki Building 8F 3-2-5 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-6008, Japan AbstractCross-border production networks have been playing an increasingly important role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries' trade in recent years, but microlevel studies are rare. This paper uses firm-level data from the two most active ASEAN countries in production networks (Thailand and Malaysia) and examines the effect of participating in production networks on profits and technological capabilities of firms. The empirical results show that participating in production networks raises profits. The evidence further suggests that participation in production networks is also positively correlated with technology upgrading, measured by a technological capabilities index.

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