Affirmative action and economic liberalisation: The dilemmas of the Malaysian automotive industry

Segawa, Noriyuki, Natsuda, Kaoru and Thoburn, John (2014) Affirmative action and economic liberalisation: The dilemmas of the Malaysian automotive industry. Asian Studies Review, 38 (3). pp. 422-441. ISSN 1035-7823

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Abstract

This paper considers the ways in which Malaysia has tried to develop automotive production through promoting a nationally owned car producer, Proton, and to carve out some "policy space" to continue a degree of protection whilst also liberalising its trade regime. We show that protection has not yet succeeded in making Proton and its many vendors internationally competitive, and why Malaysia has found that it has to secure the cooperation of a major automotive multinational to upgrade and to achieve export success.

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Additional Information: Funding Information: The authors gratefully acknowledge research finance from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS KAKENHI 22730153). We also thank two referees and ASR’s editor for very searching and helpful comments. Of course, the usual disclaimers apply.
Uncontrolled Keywords: affirmative action,automotive industry,bumiputera,industrial policy,malaysia,motor industry,proton,cultural studies,history,sociology and political science ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3316
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
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Date Deposited: 26 Nov 2021 01:39
Last Modified: 31 Jan 2024 03:17
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/82334
DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2014.928847

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