Government-Business Coordination and Small Enterprise Performance in the Machine Tools Sector in Malaysia

Rasiah, Rajah

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“…Between 1988 and 1991, most major players in this industry, including Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi Metals, Control Data, Applied Magnetic and Conner Peripherals, set up assembly plants in Penang (McKendrick et al 2000). Several US-based companies came between 1989 and 1990 to provide contract manufacturing services in printed circuit board assembly and flex circuit board assembly (Rasiah 2002).…”

Section: Evolution Of the Penang Export Hubmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With a history of over four decade as a major hub in global production networks, Penang provides a valuable laboratory for a study of the interplay of government policies and global sourcing strategies of MNEs in determining developmental gains from global production sharing. There is a sizeable literate on policy reforms in Penang and its role as a main regional hub within global electronics and electrical goods production networks (for example Todd 1986, Narayanan 1999, Ernst 2004, UNIDO United Nation Industrial Development Organization 2009 and UNCTAD United Nation Conference on Trade and Development 2010, Rasiah 1994, 2002, Kharas et al 2010, Athukorala 2014b). The novelty of this article lies in its specific focus on the interplay of MNE's production-sharing strategies and government policy in facilitating the emergence of new local firms within production networks.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Global Productions Sharing and Local Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: Evidence from Penang Export Hub, Malaysia

Athukorala

2017

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies

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This article examines opportunities and policy options for developing countries to promote engagement of local firms in global production networks. The article begins with a stagesetting overview of the ongoing process of global production sharing and the emerging opportunities local firm's engagement. It then undertakes an illustrative case study of the export hub in the state of Penang in Malaysia. Forging operational links between multinational enterprises, which set up assembly plants in Penang, and local firms was an integral part of the export-led development strategy of the state. This policy emphasis was instrumental in fostering a domestic supplier network around the operations of the multinational enterprise subsidiaries. A number of local firms, which emerged de novo through production sharing, have become global players in their own right, with production bases in a number of other countries.

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Section: Evolution Of the Penang Export Hubmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Global Productions Sharing and Local Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: Evidence from Penang Export Hub, Malaysia

Athukorala

2017

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies

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“…The push factors include the economic or institutional environment (e.g. Robson 2007), which may affect different ethnic groups differently (De Clercq et al 2013), for example in the presence of ethnic discrimination or affirmative action as practiced in countries like Malaysia (Rasiah 2002). Among the pull factors are favourable, culturally transmitted entrepreneurial values (Wyrwich 2015), strategies (Bhalla et al 2007) or trading opportunities (Wang and Liu 2014) that differ between ethnic groups.…”

Section: The Overseas Chinese In Malaysiamentioning

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Is there a Spirit of Overseas Chinese Capitalism?

2016

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The economic miracle of the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia has been attributed to their unique economic culture forged from Confucian thought and the emigration experience. However, this Spirit of Overseas Chinese Capitalism (SOCC) hypothesis, based largely on qualitative research, has not been validated through quantitative work. This paper provides, for the first time, empirical evidence from a values survey and experiment which show that only some of the hypothesised SOCC values and behaviours differentiate the Chinese from less economically successful ethnic groups in Malaysia. While we find no evidence that Confucian values explain the success of the Overseas Chinese we do find it may lie in their (a) more conductive work values and (b) greater intra-ethnic cooperativeness, both accentuated by the emigration experience.

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“…A study by Rosli (2005) compares the performance between the Malay (the indigenous people) and foreign suppliers in the overall auto-parts industry, but he made no attempt to examine factors determining the supplier or firm performance. Some other studies on the performance of SME in Malaysia were also carried out, but their focus was on other industries, such as the machine tools sector (Rasiah, 2002) as well as food and beverage, textiles and wood, and furniture industries (Hashim and Abdullah, 2002). Thus, it is timely for this paper to examine the performance of SMEs in the Malaysian auto-parts industry with reference to factors determining its performance.…”

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Determinants of small and medium enterprises performance in the Malaysian auto-parts industry

Mohamad¹

2013

Afr. J. Bus. Manage.

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This paper examines factors determining the performance of SMEs in the Malaysian auto-parts industry.Using a multiple regression analysis, it is evident that firm age and foreign equity are significantly related to the performance of the firms. This consolidates earlier expectations and studies that age and foreign equity ownership do matter to SMEs performance. These findings provide an important signal for SMEs for entering joint ventures with foreigners in order to achieve better performance and more importantly to compete in the growing open market mechanisms. Only through joint ventures, foreigners would be eager to transfer a package of required assets, including technological, marketing and managerial skills to the local partners. Further research should be conducted to determine the role played by foreigners, who are responsible for improving SMEs performance in the auto-parts industry. Future studies should also incorporate intangible performance measures, such as customer satisfaction, competitive position and quality of product.

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Government-Business Coordination and Small Enterprise Performance in the Machine Tools Sector in Malaysia

Cited by 28 publications

References 4 publications

Global Productions Sharing and Local Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: Evidence from Penang Export Hub, Malaysia

Global Productions Sharing and Local Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: Evidence from Penang Export Hub, Malaysia

Is there a Spirit of Overseas Chinese Capitalism?

Determinants of small and medium enterprises performance in the Malaysian auto-parts industry

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