Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities: New Development Trajectories (Routledgecurzon Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 15
Preface......Page 20
Acknowledgements......Page 23
The context......Page 25
Points of departure and purpose of the book......Page 30
Globalization and the persistence of exceptionalism......Page 31
Labour markets, occupational change and social class reformation......Page 33
Service industries and city-regions in the Asia-Pacific......Page 34
Service industries and urban change: retheorizing the Asia-Pacific city......Page 38
References......Page 40
Part I Services and urban development in the Asia-Pacific......Page 43
Introduction......Page 45
Services and cities in the Asia-Pacific......Page 48
Growth of services in total employment......Page 50
Telecommunications indicators......Page 52
Trade in services......Page 54
Declining share of service corporate headquarters......Page 58
Redistribution of foreign bank branches and representative offices......Page 62
Japan: a case example......Page 64
Importance of large corporations for the supply of producer services......Page 68
Conclusion......Page 70
Acknowledgements......Page 71
References......Page 72
Services at the leading edge of urban change......Page 75
Contours of urban services development within the Asia-Pacific......Page 77
Contrasts in service industry policy approaches......Page 79
Policy responses to economic and political shocks......Page 81
Service industries and responses to restructuring......Page 84
Service industries and globalization strategies......Page 87
Policy responses to crisis and the ‘cultural turn’......Page 89
Conclusion......Page 92
Notes......Page 95
References......Page 96
Theoretical precedents: the post-industrial society......Page 101
From the post-industrial city to the global city......Page 103
The class formation of global cities......Page 104
Socio-spatial demarcations: the internationalising property market......Page 106
Socio-spatial demarcations: the gentrifying housing market......Page 108
Cultural and political relations in the global city......Page 110
Discussion and conclusion......Page 111
References......Page 113
The sociology of the service economy......Page 117
Evidence of growing services, occupational shifts and income inequality?......Page 119
Professionalization, identity and class formation......Page 126
Service work and consumption......Page 127
Building the Asian city f or the service class......Page 129
References......Page 131
Introduction: the benefits and limits of comparative analysis......Page 135
From informal sector to regulatory informality......Page 136
Current directions......Page 141
Informality and tertiarization in Asian cities......Page 143
Informal real estate in urban Indonesia......Page 144
Informal finance in urban China......Page 146
Systemic inf ormality in urban Asia: emphasizing the local......Page 148
Notes......Page 150
References......Page 151
Part II Services and urban development in the Asia-Pacific......Page 155
7 Localizing international business services investment......Page 157
Advertising growth in the Asia-Pacific region......Page 158
The Bangkok puzzle: unexpected performance of a peripheral node......Page 159
Staffing dynamics......Page 160
Relationships within the corporate network: distributed intelligence......Page 163
Industry competition......Page 164
Production networks: building up the node......Page 165
Hybridized workforce......Page 168
Hybridized product......Page 169
Global connectivity......Page 170
Conclusion......Page 171
Notes......Page 173
References......Page 174
Introduction......Page 177
Industrialization and the development of producer services......Page 178
Linkages between the PRD’s manufacturing industries and Hong Kong’s producer services......Page 182
Combining PRD's ... world-class manufacturing and business service base in the Greater PRD region......Page 187
Eliminate the cross-border barriers as soon as possible......Page 191
Transform the Hong Kong service industries to meet the demand from the PRD......Page 193
Conclusion......Page 195
References......Page 196
Introduction......Page 199
Hong Kong and the Greater China Circle......Page 202
Japanese electronic firms in Hong Kong, 1951–2001......Page 204
Contemporary functions of Japanese electronic MNCs in Hong Kong......Page 208
NEC’s sales and production support functions......Page 212
SONY’s international logistic centre for the PRC......Page 214
Matsushita’s financial settlement centre for the PRC......Page 216
Conclusions......Page 218
Acknowledgements......Page 220
References......Page 221
Introduction......Page 225
The cultural circuit of capital......Page 226
The Singaporean state, the global schoolhouse, and the cultural circuit of capital......Page 229
Conclusions......Page 236
Acknowledgements......Page 238
References......Page 239
Introduction......Page 241
Air cargo services in Asia......Page 242
Producer services, global production networks and competitive advantage......Page 244
Case 1: Intel and FedEx......Page 248
Case 2: Adaptec and GeoLogistics......Page 249
Case 3: Jabil Circuit and FedEx/Danzas-AEI......Page 251
Singapore......Page 253
Kuala Lumpur......Page 254
Penang......Page 256
Metro Manila......Page 257
Conclusions......Page 259
References......Page 261
Part III Services and urban development in the Asia-Pacific......Page 265
12 Understanding mega city-region development......Page 267
The process of mega city-region development......Page 268
Background to the case study......Page 272
Commuting to the Melbourne Statistical Division from the rest of Victoria......Page 274
Commuting to selected municipalities within the Melbourne Statistical Division......Page 278
Conclusion and implications......Page 282
References......Page 285
Introduction and overview......Page 289
Trends in employment in the Seattle metropolitan region......Page 290
Contextualizing the Seattle metro area experience......Page 294
Why have services grown so rapidly? An argument for trade in services......Page 295
Research needs......Page 303
References......Page 305
Urban transformation in the Asia-Pacific in the era of globalization......Page 307
Guangzhou’s transf ormation under socialism......Page 309
Post-socialist changes......Page 311
Nature of services development......Page 312
Services contribution in the emerging space economy......Page 316
Conclusion and discussion......Page 318
References......Page 320
Introduction......Page 325
Growth of IT service industries in Seoul and the Gangnam area......Page 326
Spatial networks of strategic alliances of IT service firms in Gangnam area......Page 330
Conclusion......Page 340
Notes......Page 342
References......Page 343
16 Epilogue......Page 345
Reference......Page 348
Index......Page 349