Economic Crisis and Technological Trajectories: Hard Disk Drive Production in Southeast Asia

Doner, Richard F.; Ritchie, Bryan K.

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“…Although the World Bank's poster children of growth-Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand-have all experienced tremendous GDP expansion over the last three decades, averaging better than 5% (World Bank, 2006), there is considerable debate over the technological depth and sustainability of that growth, especially in the wake of the region's financial crisis in the late 1990s. (Doner & Ramsay, 2004;Doner & Ritchie, 2003;Doner, Ritchie, & Slater, 2005;Ritchie, 2005b).…”

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“…Because Singapore is arguably the only country that has used "techno-global" means to successfully create "techno-nationalist," developmental outcomes (Doner & Ritchie, 2003), it can only be an inductively critical case to the extent it is "critical" at all. Thus, unlike deductively "critical" case analyses, I am not arguing that Singapore's success is a minimum benchmark that all other countries can achieve.…”

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Economic upgrading in a state-coordinated, liberal market economy

Ritchie

2008

Asia Pac J Manag

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Section: Singapore As An Inductive Casementioning

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Economic upgrading in a state-coordinated, liberal market economy

Ritchie

2008

Asia Pac J Manag

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“…13. For details regarding the kinds of business restructuring required, especially in industry, see Doner and Ritchie [2003] and Regnier [2001]. It is worth noting that TRT's support for domestic capital is biased towards the service sector, recognising that big manufacturing is now foreign-dominated [Chris Baker, personal communication, June 2003].…”

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Neo-liberalism and Domestic Capital: The Political Outcomes of the Economic Crisis in Thailand

Hewison¹

2005

Journal of Development Studies

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The 1997 economic crisis in Thailand provided an opportunity for a reinvigoration of neo-liberal economic policies. International financial institutions, together with Thailand's Democrat-led government, emphasised further market reforms, liberalisation, deregulation, decentralisation, privatisation and a reduced role for the state. The deep economic downturn saw a popular rejection of such policies, meaning that the neo-liberal interregnum was short-lived. The 2001 landslide electoral victory of the Thai Rak Thai Party symbolised the intensity of opposition to neo-liberalism. It also showed that national governments remain critical in shaping markets and that domestic economic actors continue to have significant political roles. In Thailand, far from neutering domestic capital's political capacity, the crisis and opposition to neo-liberalism saw this enhanced. One reason for this was that neo-liberal restructuring was not simply about the efficient operation of the market. Rather, it demanded a fundamental transformation of the operations of government and of the ways that business was organised and conducted. This threatened domestic capital. Its economic survival required that it seize the state so that it could control economic policy-making. This was achieved through the Thai Rak Thai electoral victory and its subsequent rule, where the protection of domestic capital's interests was achieved through a re-negotiation of its social contract with other classes.

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“…Although a similar dualism can be found in Malaysia, it is more pronounced in Thailand. 13 Despite these differences, economic growth and structural change in all three countries was spectacular. Nevertheless, a clear hierarchy of technological capacity emerged among the three nations, with Singapore occupying the apex, Malaysia the middle, and Thailand the bottom.…”

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Progress Through Setback or Mired in Mediocrity? Crisis and Institutional Change in Southeast Asia

Ritchie¹

2005

Journal of East Asian Studies

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A well-developed thesis in political economy claims that crises create opportunities for change. Yet despite creating similar preferences for change, the Asian financial crisis led to reform of policies and institutions in some issue areas and in some countries of Southeast Asia, but not in others. In this essay I find that policies and institutions associated with technological upgrading of the economy, and particularly the manufacturing sector, are often immune to reform efforts, for two reasons. First, reform demands that policymakers know what to do; and second, they must know how to do it. Whether countries can discover and adopt new “templates” for reforming technology policies and institutions depends on the capacity of preexisting institutions to foster participative rather than simply consultative public-private collaboration. Such collaboration is most likely when decentralized yet coordinated bureaucracies facilitate meaningful participation from private actors, including business, labor, and academia, in forming, implementing, monitoring, and enforcing development policies.

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Economic Crisis and Technological Trajectories: Hard Disk Drive Production in Southeast Asia

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Economic upgrading in a state-coordinated, liberal market economy

Economic upgrading in a state-coordinated, liberal market economy

Neo-liberalism and Domestic Capital: The Political Outcomes of the Economic Crisis in Thailand

Progress Through Setback or Mired in Mediocrity? Crisis and Institutional Change in Southeast Asia

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