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

我提议的ESRC研究奖学金考察了准政府机构、研究机构和跨国公司（MNCs）在新兴市场经济国家（EMEs）背景下促进可持续相互关系的协调参与。在此过程中，我希望支持英日和东盟的多边关系，并解决英国汽车工业在竞争力、生产力和创新方面遇到的瓶颈。与此同时，我打算细化一些关于日本和东南亚国家制度变革的辩论，重点是中制度分析和跨国商业因素。在政策制定环境和文献中，对促进技能发展和新管理实践的中观水平的审查被低估了。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、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。在中观层面，我的博士研究结果表明，日本机构通过构建制度变体和减轻跨境管理冲突的影响，塑造了跨国公司与子公司的关系。此外，中观协会和政府机构在宏观和微观层面的影响渠道受到制度限制的地方发挥了重要的影响力。例如，在印度尼西亚的跨国公司，外国人被禁止在人力资源管理部门工作。因此，像HIDA这样的准政府机构可能有助于传播日本人力资源管理-人力资源关系的“最佳实践和政策”。从经验上看，这一趋势对行业政策发展具有启示意义，并且在当地制度约束的情况下克服了跨境业务问题。我的博士研究还表明，外交关系为日本公司和商业协会与培训、研究和发展机构（如IDE-JETRO）合作，在国外从事社会经济发展活动创造了机会。这项ESRC工作建立在我的博士研究的基础上，该研究将在2019年4月至9月期间通过日本科学促进会（JSPS）的资助进行扩展。在Delbridge教授的指导下，拟议中的加的夫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，特别是在工业战略和技能形成政策领域。ESRC奖学金是我JSPS奖学金的合理延伸，因为我计划从比较研究的角度审视我的新数据，以及对日本管理实践和政策发展的新见解。对东南亚eme中汽车供应链和经济发展的调查与英国汽车供应链、英国关于产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-工业关系实践和政策在印度尼西亚、马来西亚和泰国等经济“老虎”国家的实施和影响，我将在HIDA和IDE-JETRO进行一项人种学研究。重点是日本占主导地位的人力资源管理-人力资源关系实践和政策的应用和影响，这些实践和政策影响在这些eme中运营的汽车制造商的管理层和工人。日本跨国公司与准政府的核心利益协调战略是管理海外子公司的技能形成、竞争力瓶颈和塑造当地劳动力市场制度。因此，JSPS研究项目对ESRC的意义在于其对日本管理技能培训和发展的分析

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