Technological Capabilities and Export Success in Asia

Informationen zum Autor Dieter Ernst, Tom Ganiatsos, Lynn Mytelka Klappentext What accounts for export success? A team of international contributors show that learning and capability formation are critical to sustain competitiveness. Through a series of case studies of firms in the textile and garment and electronics industries of five Asian economies - Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam - Technological Capabilities and Export Success in Asia demonstrates that cheap labour, combined with currency devaluation, is no longer sufficient for export success. Zusammenfassung This book shows how cheap labour, combined with currency devaluation is no longer sufficient for export success, through a series of case studies of textile and garment and electronics industries in five Asian economies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1: Technological capabilities in the context of export-led growth; 2: Export success and technological capability; 3: Catching up, keeping up and getting ahead; 4: Technological capability building and the sustainability of export success in Thailand's textile and electronics industries; 5: Technological capabilities and Indonesia's manufactured exports; 6: Technological dynamism and R&D in the export of manufactures from Viet Nam; 7: Learning, technological capability building and sustainable export growth

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• Authors: Dieter Etc. Ganiatsos Ernst, Dieter Ganiatsos Ernst, Lynn K. Metelka, United Nations Conference On Trade and D
• Assisted by: Dieter Ernst (Editor), Ernst Dieter (Editor), Tom Ganiatsos (Editor), Ganiatsos Tom (Editor), Lynn Hytelka (Editor), Lynn Mytelka (Editor), Mytelka Lynn (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.1998
• EAN: 9780415158541
• ISBN: 978-0-415-15854-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia; Routledge Studies in Growth Ec; Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Asia, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, International Trade, International trade and commerce