Industrial Restructuring and the Spatial Division of Labor: The Case of the Seoul Metropolitan Region, the Republic of Korea

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
S O Park
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Spatial Separation ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Industrial Restructuring ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Regional Characteristics ◽  
Seoul Metropolitan Region

This paper is an overview of an industrial restructuring and spatial division of labor in the Seoul metropolitan region, with a focus on the role of the Korean government, corporate strategy, and regional characteristics in controlling labor and capital. The spatial division of labor that appeared in the 1970s was related mainly to the Korean government's promotion of the rise of large enterprises to institutionalize heavy and chemical industrial development. Since the 1980s, in addition to the role of the state, corporate strategy and regional characteristics have been regarded as important factors for understanding the undergoing industrial restructuring. Concentration and development of high-tech industries in the Seoul metropolitan region during the 1980s have progressed with evolving intensified spatial division of labor beyond the spatial separation of headquarters and production units. The evolution of intensified spatial division of labor is the result of corporate strategy which regionally separates technical workers from production workers on the one hand, and corporate strategy in utilizing regional characteristics from the government's decentralization policy on the other hand.

scholarly journals A Study of the Impact of Cloud Computing Alignment on the Enterprise Technological Capability Based on Environmental Turbulence

2021 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 02049
Author(s):  
MingXing Shao ◽  
XiaoHe Yang
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Environmental Turbulence ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Enterprise Technology ◽  
Technology Absorption ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Development Capability

One of the most current concerns in the field of information system is whether cloud computing technology can deliver the desired improvement of capability and value to enterprises. This paper studied the enterprise technology development capability of the enterprises in Beijing Zhongguancun Technology Park, the first national high-tech industrial development zone in China, from the perspective of the breadth and depth of the alignment of cloud computing and enterprise. It proposed a theoretical model to study how the breadth and depth of alignment affects the enterprise technology development capability in a turbulent environment and considers the intermediary role of the enterprise technology absorption capability and the moderation role of environmental turbulence in it. The model was tested empirically by questionnaires and structural equation model (SEM). Empirical results showed that both the deep and wide alignment of cloud computing can enhance the enterprise technology development capability by improving the enterprise technology absorption capability.

The Changing Role of the State in High-Tech Industrial Development: The Experience of Hong Kong

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
A G-O Yeh ◽  
M K Ng
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Active Role ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Government

This paper is an examination of the role of the Hong Kong government vis-à-vis governments in Japan and other Asian newly industrialized economies (NIEs) in high-tech industrial development. It is argued that, whereas governments of Japan and other Asian NIEs have played very important roles in facilitating industrial restructuring, the Hong Kong government has so far refrained from direct participation in industrial development. Although the Hong Kong government has assumed an important position in the course of economic development in the territory, especially in terms of land-related economic activities, it has little vested interest and experience in directing industrial developments. It was not until the 1990s that the government switched from a ‘positive nonintervention’ to a ‘minimum intervention with maximum support’ industrial policy and began to play a more active role in facilitating industrial upgrading. The effectiveness of the changing industrial policy and the prospects for high-tech development in the territory are reviewed by examining the challenges and opportunities faced by the Hong Kong government in facilitating high-tech industrial development.

The Increasing Role of the Real Sector in Building a Post-Industrial Economic System

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 1367-1371
Author(s):  
A. S. Shatrovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Real Sector ◽  
The Real ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Economic

Aim. The presented study aims to examine international experience and current domestic practices to develop scientifically grounded proposals for Russia’s transition towards a post-industrial economic system based on the integration between the real sector and the high-tech services sector in the context of globalization.Tasks. The authors analyze the classical foundations of the post-industrial economic system and develop a mechanism for its formation under modern conditions; determine the key characteristics of the real sector and characterize its relationship with the financial sector and the services sector in the process of building and developing a post-industrial economic system; identify the fundamental problems that hinder Russia’s transition towards a post-industrial economic system; identify the key elements of the modernization of the national economic policy aimed at strengthening innovation susceptibility and transparency, which is an essential prerequisite for the transition towards a postindustrial economic system; justify the need for the formation of a high-tech real sector and its integration with the high-tech services sector within the framework of a systemic production process.Methods. This study critically analyzes the classical concepts of a post-industrial economic system that determines the behavior of economic entities at various levels as well as existing views on the mechanism of its construction. Analytical tools are used to propose a modification of the fundamentals of the transition towards a post-industrial economic system in the context of global competition and economic instability. The related directions of changes in the national economic policy are substantiated and their target function is determined.Results. The study, which is aimed at building a post-industrial economic system, shows the increasing role of the high-tech real sector and its relationship with the high-tech services sector. This allowed the authors to justify the necessity of forming a single conceptual model of the systemic production process that would unite all high-tech sectors of the economy, with the predominant development of the real sector. The implementation of such a model will ensure Russia’s transition towards a post-industrial economic system, taking into account the opportunities and risks introduced by globalization.Conclusions. The prospects for the post-industrial development of the Russian economy and the regulatory role of the government as the manager of post-industrial development on the basis of the increasing role of the real sector are determined.

scholarly journals Effects of High-tech Corporate Characteristics on Social Capital and Role of Human Resource Management

2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (s2) ◽  
pp. 209-222
Author(s):  
Jie yi Li ◽  
Yu Chieh Lin ◽  
Chich-Jen Shieh
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Development Zone ◽  
Positive Effects

Human resource is the major source of competitive advantages for an enterprise. Discussions aiming at the role of human resource in educational communities are progressing in past years. From the mobility of human resource in an organization, retaining human assets or reducing the mobility to the lowest are considered as the professional commitment of human resource and the direction for efforts. A new viewpoint about the role of human resource reveals that the role of human resource is to change social capital into the driving force of competitive advantages of an organization. It might affect the presentation of different roles of human resource in various corporate characteristics. For this reason, the effects of high-tech corporate characteristics on social capital and role of human resource management are discussed in this study. Aiming at Kunshan High-tech Industrial Development Zone, the management and the employees in the manufacturers are distributed 1000 copies of questionnaires, and 683 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 68%. The research results show 1. significantly positive effects of social capital on the role of human resource, 2. remarkably positive effects of corporate characteristics on social capital, and 3. notably positive effects of corporate characteristics on the role of human resource. It is expected to verify richer and more diverse effects for the reference of successive research and practice communities.

Industrial Restructuring in the Seoul Metropolitan Region: Major Triggers and Consequences

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
S O Park
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Industrial Restructuring ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Corporate Strategies ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
Seoul Metropolitan Region

The major triggers and consequences of industrial restructuring in the Seoul metropolitan region have been investigated. Special focus is placed on the textile and apparel industry and the changes it underwent in the 1980s. Rapid increases in wages, labour disputes, currency revaluation, and the high financial costs resulting from high interest rates and a vulnerable financial structure were the most significant triggers. A decline in the rate of increase of labour productivity and shortages of production workers arising from changes in work attitude were also regarded as important triggers. Industrial restructuring in the Seoul metropolitan region has resulted in significant changes in local labour-market structure because of the different labour requirements arising from changes in production systems and organisation. It has also resulted in an altered industrial composition, with a decline in the labour-intensive sector, organisational changes from an increase in subcontraction of production, and different locations. Major corporate strategies under industrial restructuring are discussed in relation to changes in production systems, and product structure, expansion of the internal market, subcontracting and flexible specialisation, job training, and foreign direct investments.

scholarly journals Technological lag as a threat to Russia's economic security

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anzhela Mikaeva
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Technological Gap ◽  
Material Basis ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Innovative Economy ◽  
World Development

For Russia the rethinking of the role of modern industrial development and the production of high technologies - the creation of a material basis for sustainable development and overcoming the technological gap within the existing global trend of world development - an innovative economy, is of fundamental importance. To skip this moment means to consolidate the role of a country that subsequently cannot not only compete in the global markets for high-tech products, but also perceive new technologies.

The Indices of Creative Cities: the Global and Local Aspects

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Kačerauskas
Keyword(s):  
High Tech ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Creative Cities ◽  
Global And Local

The paper deals with the indices of creative cities. Author analyses the different creativity indices suggested by both the followers and the critics of R. Florida. The author criticizes the Florida’s indices such as Bohemian, Melting pot, Gay, High tech, Innovation, Talent indices, as well as Minor integrative (diversity) and Major integrative indices. The indices of other authors presuppose the questions about the role of the region in defining certain creativity indices. The author makes conclusion that the uniform formula of creativity indices is impossible for two reasons. First, the creativity indices depend on the region of a city. Second, the very strategy to have the uniform creativity indices makes the cities similar to each other and no more unique, consequently, no more creative; as result, this strategy is anti-creative.

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