Synopses & Reviews
This book analyzes the institutional underpinnings of East AsiaOs dynamic growth by exploring the interplay between governance and flexibility in an endlessly demanding globalized marketplace. In case studies that encompass a variety of key industrial sectors and countries, the contributors emphasize the importance of network patterns of governance for facilitating flexibility in firms throughout the region. Their analyses illuminate both the strengths and limitations of recent growth strategies and offer insights into prospects for continued expansion in the wake of the East Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s.
About the Author
\Frederic C. Deyo is professor of sociology at SUNY, Brockport, and honorary professor and NZAI research fellow at the University of Auckland. Richard F. Doner is associate professor of political science at Emory University. Eric Hershberg is program director at the Social Science Research Council.
Table of Contents
Economic governance and flexible production in East Asia / Frederic C. Deyo and Richard F. Doner -- Sources of success in uncertain markets / Lu-lin Cheng -- Flexibility under unorganized industrialism / Tai Lok Lui and Stephen W.K. Chiu -- Governance and flexibility / Richard P. Appelbaum and David A. Smith -- Dynamic flexibility and sectoral governance in the Thai auto industry / Frederic C. Deyo and Richard F. Doner -- Catching up and postcrisis industrial upgrading / Dieter Ernst -- Politics, institutions, and flexibility / Rajah Rasiah -- Flexible production, high-tech commodities, and public policies / Poh-Kam Wong -- Network governance, flexibility, and development amid crisis / Frederic C. Deyo, Richard F. Doner, and Eric Hershberg.