248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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The contributions investigate indicators of change and the interaction with FDI from East Asia against the background of changes in the regional economy since the mid 1980s. They discuss in particular how the North tackled long-term decline and the long-term implications for the region.
Introduction - arresting development - East Asian FDI and regional change, Philip Garrahan and John Ritchie; fast but fragile - British restructuring for foreign direct investment in a global era, Louise Amoore; the road from Nissan to Samsung - a historical overview of East Asian investment in a UK region, Marie Conte-Helm; East Asian FDI and the UK periphery working miracles? regional renewal and East Asian interlinkages, John Ritchie; East Asian investment and reinvestment in the 1990s - implications for regional development, Carol Burdis and Frank Peck; East Asian FDI and the political economy of local development, Andrew Pike and John Tomaney; managing culture and the manipulation of difference - a case study of second generation transplant, Ian Roberts and Tim Strangleman; the transformation of employment relations in the UK's old industiral regions? - a regional comparison of the experience of Japanization, Andrew Cumbers; deciphering the East Asian crisis, Jeffrey Henderson, Noriko Hama, Bernard Eccleston and Graham Thompson.
Biography
Garrahan, Philip; Ritchie, John
'An excellent illustration of the different research methodologies used to examine the paterns of economic development and the processes of transformation and the manifold impacts of these upon the regional economy.' - Regional Studies
