Patrimonial Tradition and the Role of the State in the Industrial Development of South Korea

This article revisits the developmental state literature that stresses the unitary role of the state in steering economic development in East Asia. Focusing on the Korean state actors’ diversity and their agency after the trend of globalization and democratization, this article highlights various state actors as agents and looks into how the role of state actors has changed with industrial development, using the setting of the Korean online gaming industry over the past two decades. By examining government policy measures on the industry, I found that the state actors have actively engaged with the industry, however, this agency has not been uniform due to the different purposes of the actors and sometimes led a detrimental effect against the needs or expectations of the industry. The findings, thus, contribute to the literature by suggesting the potentiality of agent-driven institutional change and the heterogeneity that comes from the state actors’ policy engagement.

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Generalizing New Industrial Districts: A Theoretical Agenda and an Application from a Non-Western Economy

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a270081 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 81-104 ◽

Cited By ~ 63

Author(s):

S O Park ◽

A Markusen

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

South Korea ◽

The State ◽

Industrial Districts ◽

Industrial District ◽

Model Based ◽

Italian Case ◽

Role Of The State ◽

Western Economy

New industrial districts occur in a number of forms, some of which are not subsumable under the flexibly specialized, locally embedded, and endogenously driven model based on the Italian case. In this paper, we critique the industrial districts literature, focusing on the role of the state, interdistrict mobility of labor, nonlocal externalities, and non-place embeddedness in district formation and character. We introduce the notion of the satellite industrial district, comprised of branch operations of nonlocally based corporations, as an example of a rapidly growing industrial district distinct from Marshallian and Italianate forms, and argue with evidence from South Korea that these types of districts may predominate, especially in developing countries.

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ROLE OF STATE IN THE PROCESS OF CREATION AND SUPPORT OF INNOVATIVE CLUSTERS

Energy saving. Power engineering. Energy audit. ◽

10.20998/2313-8890.2021.01.02 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 12-22

Author(s):

S. Avershyn ◽

S. Mekhovych

Keyword(s):

Industrial Development ◽

The State ◽

General Strategy ◽

Business And Society ◽

Regional Power ◽

Private Partnership ◽

Role Of The State ◽

Economic Ideology ◽

Mutual Relations

In the article a question is considered in relation to the role of the state in creation and support of innovative clusters . Clusters as integrated formations of enterprises are the global phenomenon. They behave to the variety of network structures and differ in the presence of innovative constituent, that allows to adapt to the changes in a changeable competition environment. The processes of their creation and functioning pass in regional institutional environments and need attention and support of regional power. One of forms of this support there are mechanisms of state-private partnership. It is well-proven that conceptually cluster politics is a major instrument of technological reengineering of productive base of domestic enterprises. She can be effective at the observance of certain principles. Their essence and directions of action are considered. Forming of competition production and realization of the programs of technological reengineering depends on the select model of industrial politics. This politics must take into account the historical features of development and current situation. In today's Ukraine such politics has situation and conjuncture character, directly depends on dominant in the country of public and economic ideology, formed on the basis of permanent informal mutual relations and rules of behavior between the state, business and society, that, accordingly, determines aims, general strategy and specific of tool of development of industry. At development of models of effective industrial politics in Ukraine it follows to take into account the row of existent organizationally-administrative and institutional limitations. Ignoring of priority of industrial development on the modern stage creates an economic danger.

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