IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rjapxx/v26y2021i3p403-428.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Still a family firm after knowledge transformation? Generational change and enterprise development of plastic manufacturing firms in Malaysia

Author

Listed:
  • Kean Yew John Lee

Abstract

This article focuses the changes in the family firms following the development of knowledge transformation with innovation across generational changes, with specific attention given top plastic manufacturing. The case study method is used to examine the impact of generational tracing by tracing the changes in objective, 3Ms and innovation when the new generation attempts to transform the tacit knowledge of the founder by developing the quality products. The results provide an insight into key changes of 3Ms, concept developed by Alfred Chandler, which refers to a firm’s capacity to develop its manufacturing, management and marketing by codifying tacit knowledge and adopting professional management. The changes in the knowledge transformation indicate the cooperative ties with government and MNCs could serve to facilitate enterprise development of plastic manufacturing in Malaysia.

Suggested Citation

  • Kean Yew John Lee, 2021. "Still a family firm after knowledge transformation? Generational change and enterprise development of plastic manufacturing firms in Malaysia," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(3), pages 403-428, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjapxx:v:26:y:2021:i:3:p:403-428
    DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2020.1771831
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13547860.2020.1771831
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/13547860.2020.1771831?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
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    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:taf:rjapxx:v:26:y:2021:i:3:p:403-428. 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.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using 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: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rjap .

    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.