Publication Type
Conference Paper
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
4-2007
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Transborder Industrialization, Regionalization, State-led intervention
Discipline
Asian Studies | International Business
Research Areas
Strategy and Organisation
Publication
5th International Business Research Conference, Dubai, 26-27 April 2007
City or Country
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Citation
YEOH, Caroline and HOW, Wilfred Pow Ngee.
State-Led Transborder Industrialization in Asia: A Note on Singapore's Manufacturing Enclaves in Vietnam and China. (2007). 5th International Business Research Conference, Dubai, 26-27 April 2007.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2894
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