| Description |
1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Focus on Business and Management Ser |
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Routledge Focus on Business and Management Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Theory and issues -- 1 Catch-up industrialization theory -- 1.1 Advantages of backwardness and technological leap -- 1.2 Flying-geese pattern and limitations -- 1.3 Catch-up theory revisited and technological creep -- 1.4 Unravelling structural change challenges -- 2 Middle-income trap -- 2.1 Definition of middle-income trap -- 2.2 From East Asian miracle to innovative East Asia |
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2.3 When was Thailand caught in the middle-income trap? -- 2.4 Catching-up problems -- 2.5 Comparing China, Malaysia, and Thailand -- 3 Developmental states and business groups -- 3.1 Developmental state political economy -- 3.2 Latecomer nation domestic business groups theory -- 3.3 Four types of Thai family business groups -- 3.4 Theory of management critical points -- 4 Dependency theory and multinational corporations -- 4.1 Dependency theory -- 4.2 MNCs and human capital investment -- 4.3 BOI and target industries -- 4.4 Exploitation of foreign direct investment |
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Part II Policies toward innovation-driven growth -- 5 Upper-middle-income development model -- 5.1 The 1960s and 1970s import substitution industrialization -- 5.2 The 1980s and 1990s export-oriented industrialization of and the Asian financial crisis -- 5.3 Economic performance of Thailand -- 5.4 End of the low-cost advantage era -- 5.5 Low R&D activity levels -- 6 High-income development model -- 6.1 The 2000s-2010s economic revitalization and ASEAN Economic Community -- 6.2 The 2020s economic rearrangement to identify a high-income nation model -- 6.3 From creative economy to new S-curves |
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7 EEC plan and foreign investors -- 7.1 Eastern Economic Corridor Plan -- 7.2 Belt Road Initiative of China -- 7.3 Japan and Thailand plus one -- Part III Thai business groups approaching the middle-income trap -- 8 Business concentration -- 8.1 Distinctive characteristics of Thai business groups -- 8.2 Industry monopoly -- 8.3 Competitiveness -- 9 Expanding business power -- 9.1 Selection and specialization -- 9.2 Leveraging political influence -- 9.3 Mergers and acquisitions -- 9.4 Overseas investment -- 9.5 Foreign strategic alliances -- 10 Family business trap |
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10.1 Tunnelling and expropriation of minority shareholders -- 10.2 No separation of ownership and control -- interlocking directorates -- 10.3 Concentrated ownership -- holding companies and cross shareholding -- 10.4 Managerial enterprise development -- 11 Conclusion and policy recommendations -- 11.1 Three prior work -- 11.2 Shift from family capitalism to managerial capitalism -- 11.3 Policy recommendations -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Economic development-Thailand
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Income-Thailand
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Business networks-Thailand
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Business and politics-Thailand
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Thailand-Economic policy-1986-
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Thailand-Economic conditions-1986-
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000885927 |
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1000885925 |
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