In this paper, we focus on the roles of the steel and shipbuilding industries as generative
sectors in Korea? s rapid economic ascent. We argue that a world-systems analysis focusing …

I study the impact of industrial policy on industrial development by considering a canonical
intervention. Following a political crisis, South Korea dramatically altered its development …

Strategic Coupling is a timely and excellent contribution to our knowledge. Anyone who
wishes to understand how East Asia gained and maintained prominence in high technology …

Forms of enterprise development within Asia and within countries in this continent vary far
more considerably than suggested in the various capitalism literature (Hall and Soskice …

In this article, we examine the roles of raw materials and their transport as key generative
sectors in the ascent of two rising core economies, Holland and Japan. We show that the …

This book seeks to explore the role of domestic politics in the selection of industrial policy
and the different patterns of industrial transformation in East Asia. The approach taken in this …

This paper shows how Japanese? rms and the Japanese state constructed a development
model based on the steel industry as a generative sector that drove Japan? s economic …

This book provides a detailed cross-country study of the automotive industry in South East
Asia. Abbott argues that, contrary to prevailing opinion, the diffusion of manufacturing in the …

After World War II, Japan reinvented itself as a shipbuilding powerhouse and began its rapid
ascent in the global economy. Its expansion strategy integrated raw material procurement …

This article analyses the process of economic development and associated political
transformations in South Korea since the mid-1960s. It claims that, as in the rest of East Asia …