State-Led Transborder Industrialization in Asia: A Note on Singapore's Manufacturing Enclaves in Vietnam and China

Singapore-based firms to expand into the region, remain controversial. This strategic initiative is promulgated on the exportability of Singapore’s state credibility, systemic and operational efficiencies as well as technological competencies, to locations where these attributes are less distinct. W...

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Main Authors: YEOH, Caroline, HOW, Wilfred Pow Ngee
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-38932018-07-09T08:19:34Z State-Led Transborder Industrialization in Asia: A Note on Singapore's Manufacturing Enclaves in Vietnam and China YEOH, Caroline HOW, Wilfred Pow Ngee Singapore-based firms to expand into the region, remain controversial. This strategic initiative is promulgated on the exportability of Singapore’s state credibility, systemic and operational efficiencies as well as technological competencies, to locations where these attributes are less distinct. We present evidence culled from surveys and interviews conducted in the Singapore-styled industrial townships in Vietnam and China. Our results suggest that, while the parks have arguably been a measured success, the advantages supposedly created by the abovementioned export of Singapore’s competencies have proven either illusionary or far less significant than originally envisioned, vis-à-vis more practical economic and competitive concerns. 2007-04-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2894 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/3893/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Transborder Industrialization Regionalization State-led intervention Asian Studies International Business
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topic Transborder Industrialization
Regionalization
State-led intervention
Asian Studies
International Business
spellingShingle Transborder Industrialization
Regionalization
State-led intervention
Asian Studies
International Business
YEOH, Caroline
HOW, Wilfred Pow Ngee
State-Led Transborder Industrialization in Asia: A Note on Singapore's Manufacturing Enclaves in Vietnam and China
description Singapore-based firms to expand into the region, remain controversial. This strategic initiative is promulgated on the exportability of Singapore’s state credibility, systemic and operational efficiencies as well as technological competencies, to locations where these attributes are less distinct. We present evidence culled from surveys and interviews conducted in the Singapore-styled industrial townships in Vietnam and China. Our results suggest that, while the parks have arguably been a measured success, the advantages supposedly created by the abovementioned export of Singapore’s competencies have proven either illusionary or far less significant than originally envisioned, vis-à-vis more practical economic and competitive concerns.
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author YEOH, Caroline
HOW, Wilfred Pow Ngee
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HOW, Wilfred Pow Ngee
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title State-Led Transborder Industrialization in Asia: A Note on Singapore's Manufacturing Enclaves in Vietnam and China
title_short State-Led Transborder Industrialization in Asia: A Note on Singapore's Manufacturing Enclaves in Vietnam and China
title_full State-Led Transborder Industrialization in Asia: A Note on Singapore's Manufacturing Enclaves in Vietnam and China
title_fullStr State-Led Transborder Industrialization in Asia: A Note on Singapore's Manufacturing Enclaves in Vietnam and China
title_full_unstemmed State-Led Transborder Industrialization in Asia: A Note on Singapore's Manufacturing Enclaves in Vietnam and China
title_sort state-led transborder industrialization in asia: a note on singapore's manufacturing enclaves in vietnam and china
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2007
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2894
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