Achieving competitive advantages through strategic decisions on international manufacturing configuration

• Main Authors: Gan, Tion Chin, Lim, Hun Meng, Ow, Weng Keong
• Other Authors: Benjamin Tan
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::Management::Competition
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42664
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Since the start of the Japanese economic bubble in the 1980s, Japanese foreign direct investments have been pouring into East Asian countries. Manufacturing facilities sprouted rapidly in these host countries to capitalize on their comparative advantages, namely the lower factor costs and/or the...