Global Firms in the Industrializing East

• 1996 ----- color ----- 27 min ----- vhs
• (Human Geography: People, Places and Change series, Part 3) Singapore has transformed itself into an economic powerhouse along the Pacific Rim. In the early 1960s, multinational companies--attracted by highly skilled, well-trained, and cheap labor force--turning Singapore into a major manufacturing center. Just a generation later, companies in Singapore are now delegating labor-intensive work to Malaysia and Indonesia while bringing in new business in research, development, and finance. Singapore's rise as a newly industrializing country sheds light on this decade's trend toward global production and spatial divisions of labor.
• Topics: (Business Administration, Economics, Far Eastern Studies, Geography, International Business, Southeast Asian Studies)