Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia: Industry and Firm Studies

by Greg Felker (Editor), K. S. Jomo (Editor), Rajah Rasiah (Editor)

Overview

This book, and its companion, Technology, Competitiveness and the State, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for industrial technology development. The focus is on the development of Malaysia's technological-industrial base from a sector and firm-specific perspective, including the role of foreign multinationals in this process. Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia, provides a valuable analysis of the technological development of a Newly Industrializing Country and reflects on whether existing development strategies can be maintained in the wake of the financial crises sweeping the East Asian economies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415197663
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/18/1999
Series:	Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jomo K.S. is Professor in the Faculty of Economic s and Administration at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, and is the author of many works on the political economy of Malaysian development, including Industrializing Malaysia (Routledge 1993). Greg Felker is Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science at Hon g Kon g University of Science and Technology. Raja h Rasia h is Professor of Industrial Organization in the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies at the National University of Malaysia, Selangor. He is the author of Foreign Capital and Industrialization in Malaysia (1995).

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 Foreign firms and national technological upgrading : the electronics industry in Malaysia3 Managing innovation in Malaysia: comparing Japanese and Malaysian companies 4 Understanding innovation in electronic s in Malaysia 5 Technology utilization level and choice: the electronics and electrical sector in Penang, Malaysia 6 The semiconductor industry in Malaysia 7 Firms, politics and political economy: patterns of subsidiary-parent linkages and technological capability-building in electronic s TNC subsidiaries in Malaysia 8 Technology transfer from Japanese consumer electronic firms via buyer-supplier relations 9 Government-business co-ordination and the development of Eng Hardware 10 Technology capacity building in the Malaysian automotive industry 11 Promoting industrial and technological development under contrasting industrial policies: the automobile industries in Malaysia and Thailand 12 Trust and the dynamics of Japanese joint ventures in Malaysia 13 Rents, technological innovation and firm competitiveness in a Bumiputera Malaysian firm 14 Malaysia's palm oil refining industry: policy, growth, technical change and competitiveness