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Book SynopsisMultinational Corporations and the Emerging Network Economy in Asia and the Pacific delves into the ongoing rise of a global economy anchored in a web of inter-firm production networks and the role played by multinational corporations in the process. It considers the strategies and business models corporations have adopted lately to face today's highly competitive global markets, especially outsourcing and offshoring, focusing on the modalities observed in Asia Pacific and the Pacific Rim at large.
Since their inception, corporations have undergone a series of fundamental changes; each has corresponded to a given era of industrial development and has given rise to a particular type of government policy response. The book addresses these timely issues and other such as the transformation of global production networks into global innovation networks, the link between corporate and national innovation strategies and movement up the global production value chain, and the fragment
Table of Contents
Multinational Corporations and the Economy of Networks: An Overview Juan J. Palacios.
Eras of Enterprise Globalisation: From Vertical Integration to Virtualisation and Beyond Sandor Boyson and Chaodong Han
Innovation Offshoring: Root Causes of Asia’s Rise and Policy Implications Dieter Ernst
Information and Communication Technologies and Inter-Corporate Production Networks: Global Information Technology and Local Guanxi in the Taiwanese Personal Computer Industry Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason Dedrick, William Foster and Zhang Cheng
The Creation of Regional Production Networks in Asia Pacific: The Case of Japanese Multinational Corporations Shujiro Urata
The Internationalisation of Firm Activities and its Economic Impacts: The Case of South Korea Sanghoon Ahn, Siwook Lee and Cheonsik Woo
The Rise of Mexican Multinationals: Driving Forces and Limiting Factors Víctor López Villafañe and Clemente Ruiz Durán
Emerging Transnational Corporations from East Asia: The Case of Mainland China Edward K.Y. Chen and Ping Lin
Multinational Production Networks and the New Geo-Economic Division of Labour in Pacific Rim Countries Prema-chandra Athukorala
Multinational Corporations and Pacific Regionalism Philippa Dee
Governing Multinational Corporations in the Pacific Robert Scollay
Corporate Social Responsibility and Capital Accumulation Djisman Simanjuntak
