Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

11-2007

Abstract

State-led, market-driven interventions have been the hallmark of the Singapore `success storyÆ. This paper revisits SingaporeÆs state-enterprise strategy and takes a closer look at the portability of this strategy, in the framework of Regionalization21, a series of transborder industrialization experiments in Indonesia, Vietnam and China. These state-engineered projects, orchestrated to encapsulate economic space for Singapore-based firms to expand into the region, remain controversial. This strategic initiative is promulgated on the exportability of SingaporeÆs 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 SingaporeÆs competencies have proven either illusionary or far less significant than originally envisioned, vis-α-vis more practical economic and competitive concerns.

Discipline

Asian Studies | International Business

Research Areas

Strategy and Organisation

Publication

International Review of Business Research Papers

Volume

3

Issue

5

First Page

456

Last Page

471

ISSN

1837-5685

Publisher

World Business Institute

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