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Do Multinational Companies Transfer Technology to Local Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises? The case of the Tegal Metalworking Industry Cluster in Indonesia
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The ASEAN-China free trade zone : challenges and opportunities for ASEAN
No full textThis paper assesses the implication of “ASEAN plus China” on ASEAN inter- and intra-trade. Based on secondary data analysis and survey of key literature, it shows a number of interesting findings. First, despite the establishment of the ASEAN Free Trade Area, regions outside ASEAN are still the most important markets for individual member countries, for both export and import. Second, recent data show that after the United States, the European Union, and Japan, China tends to become ASEAN’s largest trading partner; trade between China and ASEAN continues to increase, and its rate tends to accelerate. Third, based on various analytical approaches, the implementation of ASEAN plus China will most likely lead to trade diversion (TD), at least to some member countries. The paper concludes, therefore, that the ASEAN-China free trade zone will most likely generate higher trade volume between China and ASEAN at the cost of ASEAN intra-trade.ASEAN, ASEAN-China free trade, ASEAN intra-trade, ASEAN inter-trade
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Forces behind the growth of rural industries in developing countries. A survey of literature and a case study from Indonesia
No full textLong-term Development of Small-scale Industries in Relation to Economic Development: Looking for General Propositions
Full text linkThe growing attention, in literature on economic development, towards the role of Small-scale Industries (SSIs) within the economy of the less developed countries (LDCs), is strongly associated with the recognised current economic and social problems of continuing imbalance in the labour market leading to high unemployment rates, the persistence of large intra- and inter-regional socio-economic inequalities; and the consolidation of extremely concentrated patterns of urbanisation, facing these countries. On the other hand, there is the notion stating that the importance of SSIs decreases with the course of economic development. The available empirical evidence on this issue diverges significantly from the afore-mentioned notion. In the background of this contradictory evidence, the paper aimed to discuss this issue and arrive at some general conclusions which would help in deriving a pattern from the available studies and evidence on the issue under reference. The conclusion of the paper suggests that no matter how far a country has developed, but as long as domestic problems of high rates of unemployment, mass poverty or unequal distribution of income exist, SSIs will continue to play an important role as a 'last resort' for the poor of the country.
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