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Article
Economics of Competition': A Study of Low-Cost Manufacturing Enclaves in Batam Island, Indonesia
Academy of International Business Southeast Asia Regional Conference, Bangkok, December 7-9 2006
Publication Type
Conference Paper
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
12-2006
Abstract
Singapore’s transborder industrialization projects in China and India have received much attention. This regionalization initiative was intended to set in place a strategic configuration for the city-state to restructure its domestic industries and, pari passu, retain important linkages with contiguous, low-cost environments. Our study reports on Singapore’s pioneering, albeit lesser-known, project - Batamindo Industrial Park – in neighboring Batam Island, Indonesia, and finds that the strategic intent of this policy gambit remains stymied by non-economic, socio-political complexities in the host environment, and the economics of competition from other industrial estates in the vicinity of this prototype, remains to be addressed.
Keywords
- Industrial parks,
- Singapore,
- Batam,
- Indonesia
Discipline
City or Country
Bangkok, Thailand
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Citation Information
Caroline YEOH, Feng Hao CHUA and Sylvie TAN. "Economics of Competition': A Study of Low-Cost Manufacturing Enclaves in Batam Island, Indonesia" Academy of International Business Southeast Asia Regional Conference, Bangkok, December 7-9 2006 (2006) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/caroline_yeoh/72/