Realignment Of Industry Research Articles

Managing economic operations in the face of military and political turmoil: evaluating the public sector's role

The focus of the forthcoming article centers on the intricacies of public administration in times of conflict and political turmoil. Its pertinence stems from the enduring impact of military confrontations on both domestic and global economic landscapes, necessitating governmental adaptability. Through comprehensive analysis, the article seeks to delineate the hurdles and approaches to governing economic affairs amid military and political crises. At its core, the study delves into the dynamics of public administration during tumultuous periods. Employing a diverse array of methodologies, including comparative analysis and modeling, the research underscores the imperative of restructuring public administration amidst crises. Unlike peacetime, wartime demands a multifaceted approach from public administrators, encompassing resource mobilization, industrial realignment, economic stabilization, supply chain management, and socio-political stability maintenance. The research underscores the criticality of agility and innovation in administrative responses to crisis challenges, emphasizing the potential ramifications of inflexibility. Ultimately, the findings serve as a practical guide for governments in devising crisis management strategies, offering insights into effective governance amidst adversity.

Gains in China's sustainability by decoupling economic growth from energy use

China's adoption of an “ecological civilization” strategy since 2012 demonstrates its vision to move toward more sustainable development models while promoting green energy and strengthening environmental protection. However, China's continuing heavy reliance on fossil fuels, especially coal, masks the complex positive trends in energy use, more sustainable economic development, and environmental management. Through examining the evolving energy-GDP relationships in China over the past few decades, we elucidated the underlying complex nonlinear processes using environmental Kuznets curve analysis and showed that the energy–GDP relationship has fluctuated between positive and negative decoupling. Furthermore, fluctuating trajectories manifested as sharp regional divergences when early-transitioning coastal areas restructured toward services and exhibited robust decoupling, whereas the industrial interior remained fossil fuel reliant. We identified various forces related to these provincial disparities, where rapid urbanization, industrial realignment, and income growth were all important. By promoting service transitions and enabling low-carbon technologies in coastal hubs, these drivers also exposed infrastructure deficits and entrenched fossil fuel usage in the interior. These problems led to China's latest strategic plans emphasizing “higher quality” growth underpinned by clean energy transitions and coordinated regional policies. Ongoing declines in coal and the rise in renewable energy usage highlight promising momentum, but stable decoupling remains contingent on sustained policy coordination. The intricate balance between growth and environmental pressures in China provides essential lessons to help emerging economies achieve sustainability by catalyzing green transitions and attaining developmental milestones.

A ‘fertile ground for poisonous doctrines’? Understanding far-right electoral appeal in the south Pennine textile belt, c.1967-1979

ABSTRACTHistorical far-right organisations have long proved pervasive, but are rarely interpreted as competitive political parties. While these minority parties and movements never secured significant representation, they influenced municipal and constituency political activity. Focusing on the ‘textile belt’ of Eastern Lancashire and West Yorkshire, this article seeks to understand how far-right organisations engaged in local electoral politics. It considers the influence of regional economic changes, caused by industrial realignment, and how opponents, primarily local Labour parties, interpreted post-war fascism and the concerns it engendered. The article then examines the growing influence of Labour’s anti-fascist campaigns, the popular appeal of far-right politics, and the composition of such group’s memberships. As far-right institutional archives are limited, the article uses material produced by predominant local Labour parties. Alongside providing new perspectives, it encourages scholars to interpret far-right organisations as electoral actors, rather than mere cultural and political pariahs.

A Tale of Two Genome Institutes: Qualitative Networks, Charismatic Voice, and R&D Strategies—Juxtaposing GIS Biopolis and BGI

The journalistic stereotypes of BGI (the world’s largest sequencing centre) as a Chinese state venture, and of Singapore’s Genome Institute of Science (GIS) as a neoliberal platform, are inverted. Methodologically, by looking at qualitative networks, charismatic leaders and research strategies, this essay proposes a finer grained, meso-level, ethnographic analysis that allows for multi-scalar tracking and juxtaposition as generators of comparative insights. It deploys a social hieroglyphic analysis of the leaders of BGI and an updated account of the post-2010 ‘industrial re-alignment’ of GIS to highlight the role of cross-national networks in the construction of what are usually seen as national science projects, as well as the roles of mixed state and market strategies, and mixed clinical, basic science, biotech and big pharma protocols and platforms of the contemporary life sciences. It pays particular attention to the small worlds of the scientific republic and the charismatic voices of leaders forging new institutional arrangements.

‘Big Deal’ or big disappointment? The continuing evolution of the South Korean developmental state

This article analyses the Kim Dae-jung government's industrial realignment (‘Big Deals’) policy in post-crisis Korea, which offers a valuable insight into the state's role in managing the transition from a developmental state to a free-market economy and into the changing nature of government–business relations. Although Kim was committed to creating a free-market economy in Korea, as the ‘Big Deals’ got under way critics accused him of violating market principles and employing tactics of intervention and coercion used by previous authoritarian regimes. The ‘Big Deals’ experience suggests a further stage in the evolution of the Korean developmental state; the dismantling of state powers and the implementation of neoliberal reforms in the 1990s had led to the emergence of a ‘transformative state’ in which the state acted as ‘senior partner’ rather than ‘commander-in-chief’. The transitional state charged with the task of rebuilding the economy after 1997 regained some of its lost powers and used some familiar methods of achieving its ends. However, it also demonstrated by the nature and scope of its interventions that it was gradually evolving and adapting to meet the changing economic environment. Although Kim's actions prompted allegations from the chaebol and their conservative allies of a return to autocratic economic management by the government, it was clear that the developmental state had not been resurrected. Rather, these criticisms serve to highlight the continuing antagonism in the state–business relationship; neither side had developed new strategies for dealing with each other and their relations were still characterized by mutual mistrust and staunch chaebol resistance to key reforms demanded by the government. Although suspicions of a permanent return to extensive state intervention were unfounded, they nevertheless diminished the prospects for the creation of a cooperative relationship between the state and big business that would be a crucial factor in revitalizing the Korean economy.

Transnational corporations and structural changes in industry In Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico

The central focus of this article is on the role played by transnational corporations in the industrial realignment of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico between the end of the import substitution stage and the early 1990s. Based on recently published studies dealing with the sweeping changes occurring in Latin America’s manufacturing sector following the region’s economic crisis and liberalization process, a computer programme developed by the ECLAC Division of Production, Productivity and Management has been used to examine the changes that have taken place in the sector’s production structure (sectoral composition and efficiency) and its linkages with the global economy.

Technology And The Organization of Work in Mexican Transport Equipment Maquilas

One of the central goals of continental economic integration is the reorganization of manufacturing, a process that has been characterized by massive job loss in the northeastern and midwestern parts of the continent, and in central Mexico. The US southwest and the Northern Industrial Belt of Mexico have been important receiving areas in this regional industrial re-alignment. Surviving factories, as well as completely new ones, have been relocated, reopened, and qualitatively transformed through two sets of customs rules.