Small Firm Dynamism in East Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-iii

   PDF

2. Small Firm Dynamism in East Asia: An Introductory Overview

   • Farrukh Iqbal, Shujiro Urata

   Pages 1-12

3. The Dynamic Role of Small Firms: Evidence from the U.S.

   • David B. Audretsch

   Pages 13-40

4. Entry of Small and Medium Enterprises and Economic Dynamism in Japan

   • Hiroki Kawai, Shujiro Urata

   Pages 41-51

5. Technological Progress by Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan

   • Shujiro Urata, Hiroki Kawai

   Pages 53-67

6. Productivity Dynamics of Small and Medium Enterprises in Taiwan

   • Bee-Yan Aw

   Pages 69-84

7. Small and Medium Enterprises in Korea: Achievements, Constraints and Policy Issues

   • Jeffrey B. Nugent, Seung-Jae Yhee

   Pages 85-119

8. The Evolution and Structure of Industrial Clusters in Japan

   • Hideki Yamawaki

   Pages 121-140

9. Firm and Group Dynamics in the Small and Medium Enterprise Sector in Indonesia

   • Albert Berry, Edgard Rodriguez, Henry Sandee

   Pages 141-161

10. Subcontracting and the Performance of Small and Medium Firms in Japan

    • Fukunari Kimura

    Pages 163-175

11. Government-Business Coordination and Small Enterprise Performance in the Machine Tools Sector in Malaysia

    • Rajah Rasiah

    Pages 177-195

12. Market Reforms, Technological Capabilities and the Performance of Small Enterprises in China

    • Yueping Wang, Yang Yao

    Pages 197-211

13. Small and Medium Enterprises in Thailand: Recent Trends

    • Paitoon Wiboonchutikula

    Pages 213-226

14. Small Firm Dynamics: Evidence from Africa and Latin America

    • Carl Liedholm

    Pages 227-242

Indonesia experienced strong economic growth at greatest risk, that too would be useful for strategy formulation purposes, especially in cases in the 1970s with the help of high oil prices, a where employment protection is an important period of stagnation in the 1980s when oil prices declined and another period of strong economic objective. Finally, to the extent that policies can growth after 1986 when substantial trade and alter the probability ofsuccess or failure in coping investment liberalization enabled a dramatic with shocks, it would be useful to know which of policies is most effective and under what surge in labor-intensive manufacturing export set production. Recently, the regional financial crisis conditions. of 1997-1998 dealt Indonesia a severe shock The recent crisis in East Asia provides an from which it has not yet fully recovered. How opportunity to examine the link between industrial structure and economic resilience. The relative have its SMEs done through the twists and turns of the economy in the past quarter century? impact of the crisis by size of firm can be judged Unfortunately, the data needed to track the per­ in part by the effects on capacity utilization and formance of the SME sector are not as good for employment. The table below summarizes some Indonesia as for many of the other countries in results from a survey sponsored by the World East Asia.

• Business
• Developing Countries
• East Asia
• Economic Development
• Economic Growth
• Performance
• growth
• productivity

• World Bank, Washington, USA

  Farrukh Iqbal

• Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

  Shujiro Urata

Policies and ethics