Edmund Terence Gomez
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 161229 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Edmund Terence Gomez |
| NOMBRES | Edmund Terence |
| APELLIDO | Gomez |
| FIRMA | GOMEZ E T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Malaya |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5066-461X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
State–state ties, power elites, and state–business relations
This study focuses on state–state relations for business, a phenomenon shaped by how local power elites (LPEs), in this case, in Malaysia, collaborate with transnational corporate elites (TCEs), in this case, from China, to implement infrastructure projects linked to the latter's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). These LPE-TCE links, which have led to the creation of novel forms of state–business relations (SBRs), offer interesting theoretical insi…
Evolving State-Business Relations in an Age of Globalisation
This article introduces the feature section "Evolving State–Business Relations in an Age of Globalisation" in this issue of the journal. That feature section examines state–business relations across the Asian region, from South Korea to Turkey. It focuses on networked forms of co-ordination between state and non-state (or private) actors who collectively shape how an economy evolves. This article and those of the feature section deal with three i…
Regime Changes, State-Business Ties and Remaining in the Middle-Income Trap
While Malaysia's economy is widely acknowledged as having the capacity to escape the middle-income trap and achieve highly-industrialised status, this potential has not been realised. One theoretical proposition why an economy remains mired in the middle-income trap is that the introduction of mechanisms to overcome this problem is hampered by political, not economic, matters. Malaysia serves as an interesting case to test this proposition becaus…
China in Malaysia
Breaking Malay–Muslim hegemony – patronage, factionalism and feuds in the 14th Malaysian general election
Following the historic 14th Malaysian General Election (GE14), the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the hegemonic party in the ruling multi-party coalition, the Barisan Nasional (BN, or
Political Financing Reform
This article analyses the evolution of political finance reform debates in Malaysia, one of the world’s most durable electoral authoritarian regimes. While the reliance of the dominant party, UMNO, on unfettered resources remained unchanged, crises in Malaysia’s political environment allowed civil society actors to concretise abstract debates over reform into specific proposals. Drawing from interviews, public statements and observation, two dist…
Malaysia’s 14th General Election and Umno’s Fall
On Patricia Sloane-White's Corporate Islam
Minister of Finance Incorporated
Representations of inclusiveness in social assistance programmes of the 10th Malaysia Plan, 2011–2015
This article appraises constructions of inclusiveness in social assistance programmes in the Malaysian socioeconomic agenda of the 10th Malaysia Plan, 2011–2015 (10MP). Setting as context the needs-based aspirational inclusiveness articulated in documents preceding the 10MP, this study adopts a discursive approach to probe the realisations of such inclusiveness in the 10MP. The analysis reveals essentialised ethnic constructions of different comm…
Ethnic Enterprises, Class Resources and Market Conditions
This article investigates changes in the conduct of ethnic enterprises followingthe emergence of a new generation of owners with varying class resources andas market conditions transform. The case study method is used to examinethe impact of changing class resources and market conditions on ethnicallybasedenterprises, exploring the effects of generational transitions among smallIndian owned companies in the food industry in Malaysia. The results …
Failed Broker State
Failed Broker State: Malaysia’s Indian Poor and the Fall of UMNO." The Round Table, 107(6), pp. 793–794
Still an ethnic enterprise after a generational change? Indian-owned SMEs in Malaysia
This study grapples with two key puzzles: first, what happens when companies established as ethnic-based enterprises, including by migrants, are passed on to the next generation? Second, do these migrant businesses remain as ethnic enterprises after generational transitions? The empirical focus of this study is Malaysia, a country with one of the largest ethnic Indian populations outside India. To provide insights into these questions, this artic…
Transformation of political elite as regime changes in Pakistan
Burton and Higely [(2001). ‘The study of political elite transformations’, International review of sociology/Revue internationale de sociologie, 11(2): 181–199] argue that when elites of a society are not united this will lead to an unstable political regime. Consensual elite cohesion is only created through distinctive elite transformation. This essay attempts to elaborate their argument in Pakistan, by developing a link among a continuous regim…
The Government’s Business
The Government’s Business: Politics, Policies and Corporate Development in Malaysia." The Round Table, 106(5), pp. 577–578
Diversity of Southeast Asian Capitalisms
Empirical gaps exist in the literature about diverse forms of capitalism. The first is thematic, involving the incomplete institutional and political account of how the state can, through a series of policies, shape the development of domestic enterprises. The second gap is regional in nature: this literature does not deal with the historical development of firms that have played a central role in industrialising Southeast Asia. One reason for th…
Tamils and the Haunting of Justice
Reviewed by: Tamils and the Haunting of Justice: History and Recognition in Malaysia’s Plantations by Andrew C. Willford Carl Vadivella Belle (bio), Charles Hirschman (bio), Edmund Terence Gomez (bio), and Andrew C. Willford (bio) Keywords Malaysia, Tamils, land tenure, relocation, plantation workers, bumiputraism, government policy, communal relations, ethnography, ethno-nationalism, critical theory, ethnography Tamils and the Haunting of Justic…
State, Society and Enterprise Development
The governments of China and Malaysia have deployed their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to channel investments between both countries. This is to increase private investment flows into the mainland, while in Malaysia it serves an urgent need to draw foreign and domestic investments. These state-led investments have resulted in joint ventures that have included private enterprises owned by Chinese entrepreneurs, an attempt to continue to encourag…
Tamils and the Haunting of Justice
Resisting the Fall
Before Malaysia’s 2013 general election, one of the few remaining dominant coalitions in the world was aware it would struggle to retain power. A fledgling opposition coalition had inspired public confidence of its capacity to competently rule while public discontent with the ruling party was rife due to the ubiquity of patronage that had prevented the responsible implementation of policies. However, regime change did not occur. How does the prot…
Government-linked companies and sustainable, equitable development
The debate over how far governments should intervene in economies in order to promote economic growth has taken on new vigour since the financial crisis of 2008. Many countries, many of them in Asia, have secured good economic growth after the crisis by adopting a developmental state model, with governments intervening in their economies, often supporting specific companies. This book explores debates about government intervention, assesses inter…
The 11th Malaysia Plan
Intraco
Through the lens of the now-defunct Singapore government-linked company (GLC) called International Trading Company (INTRACO), this book offers a historical analysis of the country's economic development strategy. Since its Independence in 1965, GLCs like INTRACO were introduced by the former Deputy Prime Minister, the late Dr Goh Keng Swee, a pioneer of Singapore's remarkable transformation from Third World to First, to fulfil strategic economic …
Revisiting affirmative action, globally
Introduction
The articles in this special issue examine the interactions of religious, economic and political power by exploring the impact on multi-ethnic societies in Malaysia and Singapore of prominent non-mainstream Christian and Muslim groups whose significant business activities relate to their religious faith. A study of the enterprises developed by these groups provides insights into the importance of religion to their leaders and the groups they repr…
The Rise and Fall of Capital
This article argues that better informed insights into the benefits and repercussions of the form of development of East Asian economies could be obtained when the theoretical perspectives from two different bodies of literature are employed collectively. If the concepts from the discipline of political economy – specifically the body of literature dealing with the developmental state now commonly deployed in analyses of East Asian economies – ar…
Belonging to the nation
This study reviews developments in the ethnic and national identity of the descendants of migrants, taking ethnic Chinese as a case study. Our core question is why, in spite of debates worldwide about identity, exclusion and rights, do minority communities continue to suffer discrimination and attacks? This question is asked in view of the growing incidence in recent years of 'racial' conflicts between majority and minority communities and among …
Monetizing Politics
This paper assesses the patterns of financing of political parties and elections in Malaysia. The poor regulation of the activities of parties and of all forms of political elections has contributed to allegations of covert funding of politicians, from both Malaysian and foreign sources. Since parties have grossly unequal access to funds, this has led to unfairness in federal and state elections. This paper also deals with two fundamental issues …
Resisting the Fall
Before Malaysia’s 2013 general election, one of the few remaining dominant coalitions in the world was aware it would struggle to retain power. A fledgling opposition coalition had inspired public confidence of its capacity to competently rule while public discontent with the ruling party was rife due to the ubiquity of patronage that had prevented the responsible implementation of policies. However, regime change did not occur. How does the prot…
Diversity of Southeast Asian Capitalisms
Empirical gaps exist in the literature about diverse forms of capitalism. The first is thematic, involving the incomplete institutional and political account of how the state can, through a series of policies, shape the development of domestic enterprises. The second gap is regional in nature: this literature does not deal with the historical development of firms that have played a central role in industrialising Southeast Asia. One reason for th…
Political Financing Reform
This article analyses the evolution of political finance reform debates in Malaysia, one of the world’s most durable electoral authoritarian regimes. While the reliance of the dominant party, UMNO, on unfettered resources remained unchanged, crises in Malaysia’s political environment allowed civil society actors to concretise abstract debates over reform into specific proposals. Drawing from interviews, public statements and observation, two dist…
Evolving State-Business Relations in an Age of Globalisation
This article introduces the feature section "Evolving State–Business Relations in an Age of Globalisation" in this issue of the journal. That feature section examines state–business relations across the Asian region, from South Korea to Turkey. It focuses on networked forms of co-ordination between state and non-state (or private) actors who collectively shape how an economy evolves. This article and those of the feature section deal with three i…
Electoral funding of general, state and party elections in Malaysia
1996). Electoral funding of general, state and party elections in Malaysia. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 81-99
Regime Changes, State-Business Ties and Remaining in the Middle-Income Trap
While Malaysia's economy is widely acknowledged as having the capacity to escape the middle-income trap and achieve highly-industrialised status, this potential has not been realised. One theoretical proposition why an economy remains mired in the middle-income trap is that the introduction of mechanisms to overcome this problem is hampered by political, not economic, matters. Malaysia serves as an interesting case to test this proposition becaus…
Tamils and the Haunting of Justice
Politics, Economic Crises and Corporate Governance Reforms
Following the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the regulatory system involving governance of the corporate sector was subjected to major legislative and institutional reforms, primarily in response to exposures of serious cases of corruption and abuse in the financial sector by well-connected businesspeople. However, the 2008 global financial crisis indicated continued occurrence of irresponsible forms of corporate development and practices, undersco…
Transnationalism misapplied
n Migration is a main topic and source of evidence in transnational studies, but such studies sometimes promote abstract theorizing above coherent factual analysis. Predetermined theoretical schemes can sometimes blind authors to the facts they themselves uncover. Some transnational studies romanticize migration by skating over the antagonisms in `diasporic culture? and the plight of `illegal? migrants, neglecting class distinctions, homogenizing…
Family Firms, Transnationalism and Generational Change
Chinese networks and enterprise development
This study assesses the argument that common ethnic identity has facilitated the creation of transnational business networks leading to the rise of a new economically powerful "global tribe" comprising ethnic Chinese from East and Southeast Asia. The primary contention in this article is that a network with the economic clout of a "global tribe" would entail interlocking stock-ownership ties, a sharing of resources and cooperation to the point of…
Breaking Malay–Muslim hegemony – patronage, factionalism and feuds in the 14th Malaysian general election
Following the historic 14th Malaysian General Election (GE14), the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the hegemonic party in the ruling multi-party coalition, the Barisan Nasional (BN, or
Still an ethnic enterprise after a generational change? Indian-owned SMEs in Malaysia
This study grapples with two key puzzles: first, what happens when companies established as ethnic-based enterprises, including by migrants, are passed on to the next generation? Second, do these migrant businesses remain as ethnic enterprises after generational transitions? The empirical focus of this study is Malaysia, a country with one of the largest ethnic Indian populations outside India. To provide insights into these questions, this artic…
State, Society and Enterprise Development
The governments of China and Malaysia have deployed their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to channel investments between both countries. This is to increase private investment flows into the mainland, while in Malaysia it serves an urgent need to draw foreign and domestic investments. These state-led investments have resulted in joint ventures that have included private enterprises owned by Chinese entrepreneurs, an attempt to continue to encourag…
The 11th Malaysia Plan
Revisiting affirmative action, globally
Introduction
The articles in this special issue examine the interactions of religious, economic and political power by exploring the impact on multi-ethnic societies in Malaysia and Singapore of prominent non-mainstream Christian and Muslim groups whose significant business activities relate to their religious faith. A study of the enterprises developed by these groups provides insights into the importance of religion to their leaders and the groups they repr…
Family Firms and Brand Products in Malaysia
Two key questions in Malaysia's corporate history have not yet been answered. Why is it that only a small number of family firms produce brand products? Why has none emerged as a major publicly listed enterprise? This study employs concepts from family business literature as well as Alfred Chandler, Jr's business history approach to answer these questions. A blend of conceptual tools from these two bodies of literature offers insights into the ev…
Privatization and public enterprise reform in the Asia‐Pacific region
Given the close links between politics and business in Malaysia, the political implications of privatization take on added significance, contributing, in particular, to considerable political patronage during privatization. This paper deals with the problems that emerged following state intervention in the economy which ultimately led to the government's justification for introducing privatization. The paper examines the meaning of privatization …
Beyond 1990
Corporate Involvement of Malaysian Political Parties
Electoral funding of general, state and party elections in Malaysia
1996). Electoral funding of general, state and party elections in Malaysia. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 81-99
Privatization and public enterprise reform in the Asia‐Pacific region
Given the close links between politics and business in Malaysia, the political implications of privatization take on added significance, contributing, in particular, to considerable political patronage during privatization. This paper deals with the problems that emerged following state intervention in the economy which ultimately led to the government's justification for introducing privatization. The paper examines the meaning of privatization …
Chinese Business Enterprise
Malaysia's Political Economy
Chinese Business in Malaysia
Chinese companies have managed to perform well in Malaysia, especially after the recession in the mid-1980s, since there has been a clear change in the Malay dominated government's attitude to Chinese capital, although mainly in the highest echelons. Despite the problems that prevail among UMNO politicians, the government has provided an economic environment that is stable and offers opportunities for domestic private investment, even for the Chi…
The Riddle of Malaysian Capitalism
TablesFiguresAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionPART I - THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT: STATE AND CAPITAL TO 1990Malaysian political economy: an overviewThe state and the expansion of Malay ownershipPART II - MALAY CAPITALISTS: STATE, PARTY, POLITICAL AND PRIVATEThe new Malay state: catalyst for capitalism or cronyism?The party: UMNO's role in the development of Malay capitalismPolitical capitalists: relations between party capital and private Malay capita…
Democracy in Malaysia
Chinese Business in South-East Asia
Introduction: Chinese Busines Research in Southeast Asia Edmund Terence Gomez and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao 1. Singapore Chan Kwok Bun and Ng Beoy Kui 2. Malaysia Edmund Terence Gomez and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao 3. Thailand Jamie Mackie 4. Indonesia Diao Ai Lien and Mely Tan 5. Taiwanese Business in Southeast Asia I-Chun Kung
Political Business in East Asia
Development and Corruption: The East Asian Paradox Andrew Wedeman 2. Political Business Alliances: The Role of the State and Foreign and Domestic Capital in Economic Development Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt 3. Political Business in Malaysia: Party Factionalism, Corporate Development and Economic Crisis Edmund Terence Gomez 4. KMT, Inc: Liberalization, Democratization and the Future of Politics in Business Karl Fields 5. State Predation and Rapid Gr…
Transnationalism and the essentializing of capitalism
The State of Malaysia
This book provides an overview of the current state of Malaysia, looking at political and economic developments and at governance, and discussing the impact of ethnicity, patronage and the reform movement. Apart from discussing issues such as Islamisation and identity transformations within Malaysian society, it reviews policies like privatisation and provides an examination of business enterprise, exploring how control of 'corporate Malaysia' is…
Chinese networks and enterprise development
This study assesses the argument that common ethnic identity has facilitated the creation of transnational business networks leading to the rise of a new economically powerful "global tribe" comprising ethnic Chinese from East and Southeast Asia. The primary contention in this article is that a network with the economic clout of a "global tribe" would entail interlocking stock-ownership ties, a sharing of resources and cooperation to the point of…
Politics in Malaysia
Family Firms, Transnationalism and Generational Change
Migration and Settlement
The fashionable British view on the Chinese has, over the last 300 years, rung many changes on the bells marked vice to virtue, including (in roughly chronological order): philosopher, tyrant, Arcadian phalansterist, yellow peril, evil genius, opium-victim, drug-peddler, noble patriot, rabble-rouser, wartime ally, Red threat, frugal peasant, blue ant, seaman, landsman, washerman, laundry-lord, pauper-cook, getrich-quick caterer, inscrutable outsi…
The Chinese in Britain, 1800-Present
Family Firms, Networks and ‘Ethnic Enterprise’
The Rise and Fall of Capital
This article argues that better informed insights into the benefits and repercussions of the form of development of East Asian economies could be obtained when the theoretical perspectives from two different bodies of literature are employed collectively. If the concepts from the discipline of political economy – specifically the body of literature dealing with the developmental state now commonly deployed in analyses of East Asian economies – ar…
Transnationalism misapplied
n Migration is a main topic and source of evidence in transnational studies, but such studies sometimes promote abstract theorizing above coherent factual analysis. Predetermined theoretical schemes can sometimes blind authors to the facts they themselves uncover. Some transnational studies romanticize migration by skating over the antagonisms in `diasporic culture? and the plight of `illegal? migrants, neglecting class distinctions, homogenizing…
The Politics of Resource Extraction
International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous commun
Affirmative Action, Ethnicity and Conflict
Introduction: Affirmative Action, Horizontal Inequalities, and Equitable Development Edmund Terence Gomez and Ralph Premdas 1. Poverty, Equality, and Affirmative Action in India Sunita Parikh 2. The Struggle for Equality and Justice: Affirmative Action in the United States of America Ralph Premdas 3. Ethnicity, Economy, and Affirmative Action in Malaysia Lee Hock Aun, Edmund Terence Gomez, and Shakila Yacob 4. Coerced Preferences: Affirmative Act…
Beyond the Myth
Beyond the Myth: Indian Business Communities in Singapore Jayati Bhattacharya (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011) The academic literature on the Indians in Singapore has been sc
Monetizing Politics
This paper assesses the patterns of financing of political parties and elections in Malaysia. The poor regulation of the activities of parties and of all forms of political elections has contributed to allegations of covert funding of politicians, from both Malaysian and foreign sources. Since parties have grossly unequal access to funds, this has led to unfairness in federal and state elections. This paper also deals with two fundamental issues …
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