The international production network initially permeated into East Asia in 1960s, and the USA semiconductor company and Texas company built the assembly shop in Singapore.In the late 1970s, the multinational corporation with the production equipments in Singapore began to configure the final processing and assembly link in the neighboring countries especially in Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. A number of multinational corporations began to setup the production base in these countries. Singapore became the regional center for designing and assembling the components， as well as the total service sector for producing the configuration in the neighboring countries. In recent years， as the global production center for the components， the occurrence of China has reinforced the the inter linkage of the country in the aspect of the international production chain， and the success in the exporting of manufacturing industry in China has obviously relied on the importing of the components and parts from the countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia. This regional network is a social network, since this kind of network requir trust.
Just as Fukunari Kimura (2010) pointedout， the development of East Asia free trade area promoted the liberalization of the trade and investment， and further promoted the development of the regional production network. Due to this open market，dependency reduced through alternative resource.
As far as I can see, the constraints of this network is that in which way could the incentive measures be adopted to attract the medium-sized and small enterprises to join the regional production network， so as to enhance the operating efficiency of the overall East Asia regional production network.
Hi Cenyang,
ReplyDeleteSorry, I found your text quite hard to understand. I had to reread it a couple of times to really get a good understanding of what you were saying. You topic is very interesting and it was one big step towards the global network we are in today. Thank you for sharing, I now know why Singapore is so important and I know now how this trading construction come into existence.
The linkage to the social network is good, but I think you could explain a little more the why than only say it is a social network because of the trust in each other.
The things I am missing are some sources where all the dates and facts are coming from. I have to accept what you write as true, I will, but if I want more background information where your text is based on..
You are also forgetting the last part of the assignment, the part you have to think about closing material loops. You could add this or you could tell the reader what the reason is for not going into this part of the assignment. Maybe because your network is too general (or give another reason)? If you mention why you are not addressing closing material loops we all know that you didn’t forget this part of the assignment.
Best,
Chloe