Title Responses to regionalism in East Asia : Japanese production networks in the automotive sector / Andrew J. Staples

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 267 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Palgrave Macmillan Asian business series Palgrave Macmillan Asian business series. Contents Introduction -- Part 1: Theory and approach -- Foreign direct investment, regionalism and Japanese regional production networks -- Part 2: Establishing the context -- The transformation of the East Asian political economy -- Japan and the transformation of the East Asian political economy -- Part 3: Response to regionalism in the automotive sector -- Japanese automotive manufacturers in East Asia -- General strategy and investment response -- The rationalization and reordering of production networks -- Japanese FDI in East Asia -- Conclusions Summary Regionalism has emerged as a defining feature of the late 1990s and early twenty-first century international political economy, and in East Asia this political process may be seen as a response to continuing globalization, the Asian financial crisis, and the deepening regionalization of economic activity. This interaction between regionalism and regionalization, between private and state actors, is a key dynamic of the East Asian political economy today. Taken together these forces amount to a transformation of the regional political economy which, this book suggests, necessitates a re-evaluation of the way in which we can examine the activities of the multinational enterprise in East Asia. The central question of this study, then, is to what extent has this transformation impacted on the strategies employed by Japanese multinationals in their East Asian operations. Drawing on recent empirical data, this book explores how these firms have responded to regionalism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Investments, Japanese -- East Asia Automobile industry and trade -- East Asia BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Automobile Industry. Automobile industry and trade. International economic relations. Investments, Japanese. Investeringar -- Japan. Bilindustri -- Östasien. SUBJECT Japan -- Foreign economic relations -- East Asia East Asia -- Foreign economic relations -- Japan Subject East Asia. Japan. Form Electronic book LC no. 2008015613 ISBN 9780230584174 0230584179

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