Automotive Industrialisation. Industrial Policy and Development in Southeast Asia
Automotive Industrialisation. Industrial Policy and Development in Southeast Asia
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汽车工业化。
DOI:
10.1080/13547860.2022.2077543
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
P. Wad
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作者:
P. Wad
To begin with I must admit that I reviewed the book proposal for the publisher (Routledge) in 2018 and that I strongly endorsed the book–together with some other reviewers. Today, after having read the finished book, I do not regret, on the contrary. The purpose of Kaoru Natsuda and John Thoburn was on the one hand to consolidate factual knowledge about Southeast Asian automobile producing countries and how they have performed during an era of economic globalisation and regionalisation until the late 2010s. And on the other hand they aimed to analyse how various industrial policies have affected the evolution of automobile industries in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam (ASEAN-5) under different trade regimes, and how industrial policy can be used in an increasingly open economic environment. The two authors have adjusted and implemented the book proposal into a highly readable, informative and reflective book. The book comprises a nuanced description of the historical trends and structural outcomes of automotive industrialisation in post-colonial Southeast Asia until today together with a reliable, appropriate and coherent analysis of the content and impact of industrial policies of government before and after the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the evolution of the ASEAN free trade agreement (AFTA) in general and for automotive products particularly. Moreover, the authors also outline the corporate strategies of multinational automakers that have impacted automotive industrialisation from the beginning to the present. More specifically, the book focuses on the automobile industry (excluding motor cycle production) and Japanese automakers in the ASEAN-5 countries with automobile assembling: Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Applying a global value chain (GVC) and global production network (GPN) perspective on the interplay between industrial policy of the governments of ASEAN-5, the Japanese government and domestic and multinational automakers and component/parts suppliers the authors are able to provide an intriguing account of the multi-level dynamic of the ASEAN automobile industrialisation process evolving from a protected and domestic market oriented industry into a regionally liberalised industry with intra-regional and extra-regional linkages to automotive value chains and networks of supply and demand. The book is organised into 10 chapters. Chapter 1 presents key features and issues of the global automotive industry since the millennium year 2000 until the late 2010s. Chapter 2 outlines the core theme of the book: the research literature on the use and effectiveness of industrial policy for automotive industrialisation and development under changing trade regimes in general and Southeast Asia in particular, emphasising a historical and global economic network perspective. The rest of the book provides overviews and analyses of the regional automotive industry (Chapter 3), the Japanese automotive MNCs policies and activities in ASEAN (Chapter 4), and five automotive industry studies of Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam (Chapters 5–9). The book