Tripartite arrangements at meso level in promoting human capital development in Southeast Asian tiger economies

我提议的ESRC研究奖学金研究了准政府机构，研究机构和跨国公司（MNCs）在新兴市场经济国家（EME）的背景下促进可持续相互关系的协调参与。通过这样做，我希望支持英国-日本和东盟的多边关系，并解决英国汽车工业所经历的竞争力，生产力和创新瓶颈。与此同时，我还打算以中观制度分析和跨国经营因素为中心，对日本和东南亚国家的制度变迁进行一些探讨。在政策制定背景和文献中，对促进技能发展和新的管理做法的中间一级的审查被低估了。鉴于东盟国家的社会经济和政治变化，我致力于弥合英日贸易关系和日本外国直接投资（FDI）和官方发展援助（ODA）政策方面的知识差距。研究结果表明，日本机构已经形成了跨国公司子公司的关系，通过构建制度变量和减轻跨境管理冲突的影响。此外，在宏观和微观影响渠道受到体制限制的地方，中观协会和政府机构发挥了重要影响。例如，对于在印度尼西亚的跨国公司，禁止外国人在人力资源管理-IR职能部门工作。因此，准政府机构，如希达可能有助于传播日本的人力资源管理-IR“最佳做法和政策”。从经验上看，这一趋势对行业政策的制定产生了影响，并克服了当地体制限制所带来的跨界商业问题。我的博士研究还表明，外交关系为日本企业和商业协会提供了与IDE-JETRO等培训、研究和开发机构合作参与海外社会经济发展活动的机会。ESRC的这项工作是基于我的博士研究，该研究将通过日本科学促进协会（JSPS）的资助从2019年4月至9月扩展。在德尔布里奇教授的指导下，拟议中的卡迪夫ESRC博士后奖学金将于2019年10月开始。它将侧重于分析积累的多学科经验数据，并产生进一步的经验和政策知情的研究成果。这些JSPS和ESRC奖学金主要集中在东南亚三个最大的经济体，将进一步促进英国-日本-东盟的国际学术研究和政策制定，特别是在产业战略和技能培养政策领域。ESRC奖学金是我的JSPS奖学金的合理延伸，因为我计划从比较研究和对日本管理实践和政策发展的新见解的角度审视我的新数据。对东南亚新兴经济体的汽车供应链和经济发展的调查与英国的汽车供应链、英国关于工业战略和政策发展的辩论有关。为了了解日本汽车人力资源管理-IR实践和政策在印度尼西亚、马来西亚和泰国这三个亚洲经济体的实施情况和影响，我将在希达和IDE-JETRO进行一项民族志研究。重点是日本占主导地位的人力资源管理-IR的做法和政策，影响管理和工人的汽车制造商在这些新兴经济体的应用和影响。日本跨国公司的协调战略和准政府的核心利益是管理瓶颈海外子公司的技能形成，竞争力和塑造当地劳动力市场机构。因此，JSPS研究项目对ESRC的意义在于分析日本式的管理技能培训和发展，

My proposed ESRC research fellowship examines the coordinated involvement of quasi-government agencies, research institutes and multinational corporations (MNCs) in promoting sustainable mutual relations in the context of emerging market economy countries (EMEs). In so doing, I hope to support multilateral UK-Japan and ASEAN relations and address bottleneck competitiveness, productivity and innovation experienced by UK-based automotive industry. At the same time, I intend to refine some of the debates on institutional changes in Japan and SEA countries with a focus on meso-institutional analysis and transnational business factors. This examination of the meso level in promoting skills development and new management practices has been underestimated in the policy development setting and literature. I am committed to bridging the knowledge gap on UK-Japan trade relations and Japanese Foreign direct Investment (FDI) and Official Development Assistance (ODA) policies given the socioeconomic and political changes in ASEAN countries.At the meso level, my Ph.D. findings indicate that Japanese agencies have shaped MNC-subsidiary relationships by constructing institutional variants and mitigating the effects of cross-border management conflict. Furthermore, meso associations and government agencies develop important influence where macro- and micro-level channels of influence are institutionally limited. For example, in the case of MNCs in Indonesia, foreigners are prohibited from working in HRM-IR functions. Thus, quasi-government agencies such HIDA may be instrumental in diffusing Japanese HRM-IR "best practices and policies". Empirically, this trend has implications for industry policy development and overcomes cross-border business issues given the local institutional constraints. My doctoral research also reveals that diplomatic relationships create opportunities for Japanese firms and business associations to engage in socioeconomic development activities abroad in collaboration with training, research and development institutes, such as IDE-JETRO.This ESRC work builds on my doctoral research which will be extended through a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) grant from April to September 2019. Under the mentorship of Professor Delbridge, the proposed ESRC postdoctoral fellowship at Cardiff will begin in October 2019. It will focus on analysing the accumulated multidisciplinary empirical data and generating further empirical and policy-informed research outputs. These JSPS and ESRC fellowships, which are concentrated on the three largest economies in SEA, will foster further UK-Japan-ASEAN international academic research and policy development, particularly in the areas of industrial strategy and skills formation policy. The ESRC fellowship is a logical extension of my JSPS fellowship, as I plan to scrutinise my fresh data from the perspectives of comparative studies and new insights into Japanese management practices and policies development. An investigation of the automotive supply chains and economic developments in SEA's EMEs is relevant to UK-based automotive supply chains, UK debates on industrial strategy and policy development. To understand the implementation and impact of Japanese automotive HRM-IR practices and policies in the tiger economies of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, I will conduct an ethnographic study at HIDA and IDE-JETRO. The focus is on the application and implications of Japanese dominant HRM-IR practices and policies affecting management and workers of automotive manufacturers operating in those EMEs. The coordinated strategy of Japanese MNCs and the core interest of quasi-governments is to manage the bottleneck overseas subsidiaries skills formation, competitiveness and shape the local labour market institutions. Thus, the significance of the JSPS research project to ESRC is its analysis of the Japanese type of management skills training and development that are handled by