Corporate Planning and Policy Planning in the Pacific

This book brings together some of the theoretical, policy and corporate planning concerns on the behaviour of firms and the economic policies of governments, in the Pacific. The Pacific area has assumed special significance in the global economy because of rapid trade expansion, large scale transnational production and high growth rates. Much of the dynamism is in East Asia - notably Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore - one of the most dynamic regions in the global political economy. Government-business collaboration has become well established in the high growth East Asian states, especially because it has facilitated advanced export-led industrialization, with structural adjustments arising from problems with the US and the EC as a response to penetration of their markets. Meanwhile in the USA, such collaboration has also been initiated on a smaller scale as a result of competitive challenges of East Asian firms, although there have also been increased demands by corporate groups for protectionist measures and aggressive leverage to widen access to foreign markets.
There have been numerous studies of government-business collaboration within the regional context of the European Community but the author breaks new ground by extending the related analytical perspectives to the East Asian and North American area. Whilst the countries of the Pacific have a much greater disparity than those of the EC in terms of economic and political development, and social distances between the countries are greater, there is also a greater incentive to reap the benefits which co-operation can bring.
 
This book brings together some of the theoretical, policy and corporate planning concerns on the behaviour of firms and the economic policies of governments, in the Pacific. The Pacific area has assumed special significance in the global economy because of rapid trade expansion, large scale transnational production and high growth rates. Much of the dynamism is in East Asia - notably Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore - one of the most dynamic regions in the global political economy. Government-business collaboration has become well established in the high growth East Asian states, especially because it has facilitated advanced export-led industrialization, with structural adjustments arising from problems with the US and the EC as a response to penetration of their markets. Meanwhile in the USA, such collaboration has also been initiated on a smaller scale as a result of competitive challenges of East Asian firms, although there have also been increased demands by corporate groups for protectionist measures and aggressive leverage to widen access to foreign markets.
There have been numerous studies of government-business collaboration within the regional context of the European Community but the author breaks new ground by extending the related analytical perspectives to the East Asian and North American area. Whilst the countries of the Pacific have a much greater disparity than those of the EC in terms of economic and political development, and social distances between the countries are greater, there is also a greater incentive to reap the benefits which co-operation can bring.