Industrial restructuring in East Asian economies for twenty-first century / Seiichi Masuyama and Donna Vandenbrink -- Sectoral contribution to Indonesia's economic recovery / Yoopi Abimanyu -- Directions for industrial restructuring in the twenty-first century / Emilio T. Antonio [and others] -- Industrial restructuring in Thailand / Nipon Poapongsakorn and Somkiat Tangkitvanich -- Industrial restructuring in Malaysia / Vijayakumari Kanapathy -- Singapore / Chia Siow Yue -- Economic restructuring of Hong Kong on the Basis of innovation and technology / Edward Chen, Raymond Ng -- Taiwan as the Asia-Pacific regional operations centre / Kai Ma -- Industrial upgrading of Korea / Cheonsik Woo -- China's industrial restructuring in the twenty-first century / Wu Zhengzhang -- Restructuring strategy of Japan's service sector in the twenty-first century / Hisashi Ono
Summary
This book is about the restructuring of industry in ten East Asian economies at the start of the twenty-first century. It examines the dynamic aspects of the region's industrial structures -- the changes occurring with globalisation fuelled by liberalisation and by a paradigm shift from industrial technology to information technology. The traditional "flying geese" concept is less relevant to explaining the economic and industrial development in the region as the pattern has become less predictable
