Angela Garcia Calvo

State-Firm Coordination and Upgrading (eBook, PDF)

Reaching the Efficiency Frontier in Skill-, Capital-, and Knowledge-Intensive Industries in Spain and South Korea

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Since the 1980s, Spain and South Korea have experienced a dramatic transformation from middle-income to advanced economies. While market liberalization and globalization were important forces for change, and while states continue to be central in the organization of the Spanish and South Korean economies, the liberal and the developmental state perspectives do not provide an understanding of critical elements of these transformations. Building on a combination of historical institutionalism and international business literature, this book shows that upgrading was underpinned by cooperative models based on interdependencies and quid pro quo exchanges between national governments and large firms. The negotiated nature of these arrangements opened the door to institutional variation and enabled Spain and South Korea to pursue different strategies. Spain pursued an integrational approach based on foreign direct investment, technological outsourcing, and regional integration. South Korea pursued a techno-industrial strategy that prioritized self-sufficiency and the development of local technological capacity. Both strategies enabled Spanish and South Korean firms across multiple complex sectors to reach the efficiency frontier, but resulted in different productive specializations in complex services and manufacturing respectively. Through a comparative study this book shifts our perspective on the political economy of economic transformation: from markets or states, to state-firm coordination, as a driver for economic transformation; from one, to at least two, different pathways to upgrading; and from a world divided into emerging economies and world leaders, to a more nuanced perspective that recognizes the perspective of new advanced economies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192633484
• Artikelnr.: 62377620

Autorenporträt

Angela Garcia Calvo is an assistant professor at the Henley Business School, University of Reading. She obtained her PhD in political economy at the London School of Economics and holds degrees in public administration, business, law, and economics from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and the University of Deusto. Her research interests are the comparative analysis of industrial transformation, business-government relationships, and globalization, and the intersection of these themes.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Economic Development, Upgrading, and Coordination
* 2: Rethinking Spain and Korea Through a State-Firm Coordination
Perspective
* 3: Industry or Instrument? Two Ways of Interpreting the Banking
Sector and Their Impact on Bank Upgrading
* 4: Services vs. Hardware? The Role of Government Identities and
Preferences in ICT Upgrading
* 5: Integration or Self-Sufficiency? Two Approaches to Develop the
Automotive Industry and Their Enduring Effects
* 6: The Argument Extended: Reaching the Efficiency Frontier in Complex
Industries
* 7: Contributions to the Study of Late Development and Industrial
Transformation