Multinationals, Technology and Localization in Automotive Firms in Asia

East Asia has led rapid economic growth in the last few decades with India joining them over the last five years. Automotive parts manufacturers have been an important component of domestic production in all these economies. Experts with several years of multi-disciplinary research experience on the field examine the actual and potential technological and localization implications of MNC operations in East Asia and India. The rich collection of country experiences are both original and incisive.

This volume includes:

• Case studies from China, Japan, India, Thailand and Malaysia
• A study of the role of multinationals in Asian technology building
• An examination of the growing Chinese automobile sector

Featuring leading academics from across Asia, this title is essential reading for those studying industrial growth in the continent's major economies.

Rajah Rasiah currently works as professor of technology and innovation policy at University of Malaya. He has undertaken research and consultancy as well as published extensively in the fields of multinationals, technology, innovation, competitiveness and development.

Yuri Sadoi is associate professor of Faculty of Economics at Meijo University, Japan. She obtained her PhD in Human and Environmental Studies from Kyoto University in 1999. She has published in the fields of skill formation and technology transfer.

Rogier Busser studied at Leiden University and Kyoto University. His research interests are primarily in industrial organization, technological upgrading and business-government relations in East Asia. He currently serves as director for International Relations at the Faculty of Arts of Leiden University.