世界経済・社会統計 = World development indicators

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The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class

This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Latin America and Asia and provide new perspectives and insights for researchers and policymakers alike.

Governance in global value chains

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The contingency effects of environmental uncertainty on the relationship between supply chain integration and operational performance

The rise of 'the rest' : Challenges to the west from late-industrializing economies.

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Malaysian Manufacturing Systems of Innovation and Internationalization of R&D

Offshore outsourcing (OO) of business activities from North to South does not only relocate investments and jobs, it has also brought about new business demands on suppliers’ activities and their social and environmental impact The objectives of the study are frstly, to explore whether OO activities of Malaysian frms (herein referred to as contracting firms) matter in corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices, and secondly, to examine whether government policy and support matters in the CSR practices of the contracting frms The focus is on Malaysian based local or foreign (sub)contractors in the electrical and electronics industry The fndings of the study indicate, frstly, that the level of CSR practices is positively inﬂuenced by the degree of OO activities In addition, the size of the company’s workforce and degree of foreign ownership also have a signifcant impact on the frms’ CSR practices, while no apparent relationship is found with frms’ proftability and leverage Secondly, it appears that the government plays an important role shaping the perception, rhetoric and organization of CSR activities by frms However, most contracting frms do not recognize any support for CSR upgrading from the government or local institutions

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Offshore Outsourcing: Electrical and Electronics Firms in Malaysia

The political business of development in South Korea

As industrialization has been conceived by the Malaysian government as a strategic means for accomplishing the development policy of national stability and unity, poverty eradication, ethno-economic restructuring and finally for achieving the status of a developed country by the year 2020, industrial peace has been accorded a high priority. During the 1980s and 1990s industrial strife declined to very low levels, after an elaborate system for conciliation and arbitration had been put in place in the 1960s. But industrial peace did not equate with industrial harmony and productive behaviour. Adopting a policy of in-house unionism in the early 1980s, the Malaysian government tried out a new mechanism for securing cooperation and consensus at the enterprise level, focusing on the new Malay workforce in the modern sectors and bypassing the traditional trade unions, structured on industrial, occupational and trade boundaries. Based on three case stories from the metal industry, this article demonstrates that enterprise unions are not by nature docile, managementcontrolled trade unions in a Malaysian context. A certain dynamic of enterprise industrial relations is delineated and explained by union democracy and independence on the one hand and employers' policies and practices in terms of personnel and industrial relations management on the other. The labour laws and the authorities provide a framework and mechanisms for conflict interpretation and resolution, but a statist explanation of Malaysian industrial relations at the enterprise level is insufficient. The management-labour relationship has to be taken to the forefront of the analysis, which falsifies some of the myths surrounding enterprise unions in Malaysia.' In Search of Industrial Harmony Industrial strife predominated in Malaysian industrial relations during the late colonial years of the 1940s, but it was more or less suspended during civil war and the emergency of 1948-60. In the

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Enterprise Unions: Panacea for Industrial Harmony in Malaysia?

This well-researched book examines the dramatic transformation of Southeast Asian countries from agricultural and mining economies to industrial nations.

Peter Wad

Papers

Malaysian Manufacturing Systems of Innovation and Internationalization of R&D

Corporate Social Responsibility and Offshore Outsourcing: Electrical and Electronics Firms in Malaysia

The political business of development in South Korea

Enterprise Unions: Panacea for Industrial Harmony in Malaysia?

Industrial Relations and Labour Market Conditions