Philip Garrahan, John Ritchie

East Asian Direct Investment in Britain

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The North of England has claimed more inward investment form East Asia than any other region in Britain, or indeed any region in the other member states of the European Union. Specialists from business organization and managment join with political economists and geographers to consider how this Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has influenced change in the region, and plot the dynamics of this particularly British phenomenon. The contributors investigate the main indicators of change and the interaction with FDI from East Asia against the background of profound changes in the regional economy since the mid 1980s, specially the part played by FDI in boosting successive phases of post-war regional economic development planning. They discuss in particular how the North has met the challenge of its long-term decline and, now that this source of FDI is levelling off and there are signs of dis-investment, the implications for the region. Specific aspects - such as private and public sector collaboration, local government, and employment relations - are analyzed with a view to determining which have been most directly affected. The book concludes with a discussion of the causes and consequences of the East Asian economic crisis and some of the likely long-term effects of the crisis for East Asia and for the global economy more generally.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780714680446
• ISBN-10: 0714680443
• Artikelnr.: 21082365

Autorenporträt

Garrahan, Philip; Ritchie, John

Inhaltsangabe

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.