IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/apacel/v32y2018i2p42-63.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Industry dynamics in Growth Triangles: the E&E industry in SIJORI 25 years on

Author

Listed:
  • Francis E. Hutchinson
  • Leo van Grunsven

Abstract

Launched in 1989 and encompassing Singapore, the Malaysian state of Johor, and Batam Island in Indonesia, the SIJORI Growth Triangle sought to market these territories as a ‘single investment destination’ offering differing factor endowments in close proximity. Singapore was the ‘core’ of the region; Johor and Batam occupied the land, labour, and resource‐intensive ‘non‐core’ spaces. During the 1990s, investment flows into the three territories, particularly in the electrical and electronics (E&E) industry, mirrored this division of labour. Through scrutinising trends in E&E firm entries, nationality, and industry branch in Singapore, Johor, and Batam for the 1993–2012/14 period, this article sheds light on the recent evolution of the E&E sector in the Growth Triangle. We document an increasing disconnect between the three nodes that has substantially reduced SIJORI's significance as an integrated industrial cross‐border region.

Suggested Citation

  • Francis E. Hutchinson & Leo van Grunsven, 2018. "Industry dynamics in Growth Triangles: the E&E industry in SIJORI 25 years on," Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, The Crawford School, The Australian National University, vol. 32(2), pages 42-63, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:apacel:v:32:y:2018:i:2:p:42-63
    DOI: 10.1111/apel.12235
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/apel.12235
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/apel.12235?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Rajah Rasiah, 2010. "Are electronics firms in Malaysia catching up in the technology ladder?," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(3), pages 301-319.
    2. Alexius A. Pereira, 2004. "State entrepreneurship and regional development: Singapore's industrial parks in Batam and Suzhou," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(2), pages 129-144, March.
    3. Carl Grundy‐Warr & Karen Peachey & Martin Perry, 1999. "Fragmented Integration in the Singapore‐Indonesian Border Zone: Southeast Asia’s ‘Growth Triangle’ Against the Global Economy," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 23(2), pages 304-328, June.
    4. Danny MacKinnon, 2012. "Beyond strategic coupling: reassessing the firm-region nexus in global production networks," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 12(1), pages 227-245, January.
    5. Rajah Rasiah, 2009. "Expansion and slowdown in Southeast Asian electronics manufacturing," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(2), pages 123-137.
    6. Coe, Neil M. & Yeung, Henry Wai-chung, 2015. "Global Production Networks: Theorizing Economic Development in an Interconnected World," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198703914.
    7. Shahid Yusuf & Kaoru Nabeshima, 2009. "Tiger Economies Under Threat : A Comparative Analysis of Malaysia's Industrial Prospects and Policy Options," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 2680, December.
    8. Caroline Yeoh & Wilfred Pow Ngee How & Ai Lin Leong, 2005. "‘Created’ enclaves for enterprise: an empirical study of Singapore's industrial parks in Indonesia, Vietnam and China," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(6), pages 479-499, November.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Gavin Bridge & Alexander Dodge, 2022. "Regional assets and network switching: shifting geographies of ownership, control and capital in UK offshore oil [Temporality and the evolution of GPNs: remaking BHP’s Pilbara iron ore network]," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 15(2), pages 367-388.
    2. Huiwen Gong & Robert Hassink & Cassandra Wang, 2021. "Strategic coupling and regional resilience in times of uncertainty: the industrial chain chief model in Zhejiang, China," PEGIS geo-disc-2021_06, Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.
    3. McWilliam, Sarah E. & Kim, Jung Kwan & Mudambi, Ram & Nielsen, Bo Bernhard, 2020. "Global value chain governance: Intersections with international business," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 55(4).
    4. Phil Almond & Maria C. Gonzalez & Jonathan Lavelle & Gregor Murray, 2017. "The local in the global: regions, employment systems and multinationals," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 48(2), pages 115-132, March.
    5. Antonio Angelino, 2017. "Human capital shortages in the Vietnamese industry. A firm-level analysis," Working Papers 1701, c.MET-05 - Centro Interuniversitario di Economia Applicata alle Politiche per L'industria, lo Sviluppo locale e l'Internazionalizzazione.
    6. Rajah RASIAH, 2013. "Stimulating Innovation in ASEAN Institutional Support, R&D Activity and Intellectual Property Rights," Working Papers DP-2013-28, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).
    7. Henrik Brynthe Lund & Markus Steen, 2019. "Make at home or abroad? Manufacturing reshoring through a GPN lens," PEGIS geo-disc-2019_09, Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.
    8. Chun Yang, 2020. "The transformation of foreign investment-induced ‘exo(genous)-urbanisation’ amidst industrial restructuring in the Pearl River Delta, China," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(3), pages 618-635, February.
    9. Huiwen Gong & Robert Hassink & Cassandra C Wang, 2022. "Strategic coupling and institutional innovation in times of upheavals: the industrial chain chief model in Zhejiang, China [Institutional change in economic geography]," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 15(2), pages 279-303.
    10. Miguel Atienza & Martín Arias‐Loyola & Nicholas Phelps, 2021. "Gateways or backdoors to development? Filtering mechanisms and territorial embeddedness in the Chilean copper GPN’s urban system," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(1), pages 88-110, March.
    11. Ron Boschma, 2024. "An Evolutionary Approach to Regional Studies on Global Value Chains," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 2402, Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, revised Jan 2024.
    12. Nicholas A. Phelps & Andrew Wood, 2018. "Promoting the global economy: The uneven development of the location consulting industry," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 50(6), pages 1336-1354, September.
    13. Fuenfschilling, Lea & Binz, Christian, 2018. "Global socio-technical regimes," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 47(4), pages 735-749.
    14. Henry Wai-chung Yeung, 2021. "The trouble with global production networks," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(2), pages 428-438, March.
    15. Patarapong Intarakumnerd & Pun-Arj Chairatana & Preeda Chaiyanajit, 2016. "Global production networks and host-site industrial upgrading: the case of the semiconductor industry in Thailand," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(2), pages 289-306, April.
    16. Ron Boschma, 2021. "Global Value Chains from an Evolutionary Economic Geography perspective: a research agenda," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 2134, Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, revised Nov 2021.
    17. Reijer Hendrikse & Michiel van Meeteren & David Bassens, 2020. "Strategic coupling between finance, technology and the state: Cultivating a Fintech ecosystem for incumbent finance," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 52(8), pages 1516-1538, November.
    18. Carolin Hulke & Linus Kalvelage & Jim Kairu & Javier Revilla Diez & Lucas Rutina, 2022. "Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia [From domestic to regional to global: Factory Africa and factory Latin America?: Chapte," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 15(2), pages 305-322.
    19. Henry Wai-chung Yeung, 2015. "Regional development in the global economy: A dynamic perspective of strategic coupling in global production networks," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 7(1), pages 1-23, March.
    20. Iiris Saittakari & Tiina Ritvala & Rebecca Piekkari & Perttu Kähäri & Sami Moisio & Tomas Hanell & Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, 2023. "A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 54(6), pages 969-995, August.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:apacel:v:32:y:2018:i:2:p:42-63. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678411 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.