Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia: Industry and Firm Studies (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041519766X ISBN 13: 9780415197663

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

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.

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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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041519766X
• ISBN 13: 9780415197663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 414
• Editor: Felker Greg, Jomo K. S., Rasiah Rajah