David W Edgington
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 729330 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David W Edgington |
| PRENOMES | David W |
| SOBRENOME | Edgington |
| ASSINATURA | EDGINGTON D W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3994-2217 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Population and housing recovery in Tōhoku, Japan
Local industrial displacement, zoning conflicts and monozukuri planning in Higashi Osaka, Japan
Planning for Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Japan and the West
Perception gaps - an introduction, Keizo Nagatani, Akio Tanaka images of western and Japanese art - embodiment of imagination and pseudo-reality in Nanban art, Moritaka Matsumoto Japanese perceptions of westerners in modern fiction, Kinya Tsuruta vs Kramer vs. suspense theatre - perception gap in constructions of self, gender, and family, Millie Creighton business and government relations in Canada and Japan - the homestead and public vessel, Lon…
From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb
From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb focuses on the migration, settlement, and adaptation of Chinese and other Asian immigrants and their impacts on the transformation of metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These stories of the interactivity of Asian "people and place" in four nation-states are framed within the larger context of spatial and social patterns, migration, acculturation/assimilation, and racial…
Rebuilding Asia Following Natural Disasters
Providing a detailed and comparative assessment of the humanitarian responses to a series of major disasters in Asia over the past two decades, including massive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis, this book explores complex and changing understandings and practices of relief, recovery, and reconstruction. These critical investigations raise questions about the position and responsibilities of a growing range of stakeholders, and provi…
Multinationals and Economic Geography
The role of Advanced Border Controls at Canadian airports
Patterns and organization of Japanese tourism in Canada
The tourism production chain is utilized to understand the major periods of emergence, growth, and decline of Japanese tourism in Canada. Interviews with personnel at airline companies, tour operators, and hotels indicate the salient features of the Japan‐Canada tourist production chain, as well as the spatial patterns of tourism circuits over the 1960–2010 period. The article argues that by the end of the study period the tourism production chai…
Glocalization” and Regional Headquarters
For Japanese multinational corporations (MNCs), glocalization (dochakuka) refers to the challenge of balancing the need to adapt foreign subsidiaries to local circumstances and to integrate corporate operations as a whole. This article addresses the regional headquarters (RHQ) strategies of electronics MNCs in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region. From the perspective of corporate governance, RHQs are at the fulcrum of the id…
TheIn Situ Upgrading of Japanese Electronics Firms inMalaysian Industrial Clusters
The ability of clusters generated by direct foreign investment (DFI) in emerging economies to generate sustained, value-added growth is a matter of controversy. This article assesses this debate with reference to the role of Japanese electronics multinational corporations (MNCs) in the development of clusters inMalaysia. Conceptually, we present a typology ofDFI-generated industrial clusters that represent increasing degrees of commitment to loca…
Restructuring Japan’s Rustbelt
The crisis of Japan’s political economy raises the question of how it has dealt with the restructuring of its peripheral industrial regions, and the degree to which it has embraced neoliberal policies. I argue that the spread of neoliberalism in Japan has been uneven, shaped by local settings and adopted only selectively. To make this case, the article focuses on restructuring in Muroran City (2010 population, 94,600), a city of steel and heavy i…
Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century
Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century: Contemporary Responses to Depopulation and Socioeconomic Decline, Peter Matanle and Anthony S. Rausch (Eds) with the Shrinking Regions Research Group
New Relationships between Japanese and Taiwanese Electronics Firms
This paper examines the cultural dimensions of production networks between Japanese and Taiwanese firms. Conceptually, we argue that, due to historical and cultural ties between the two countries, as well as long-standing associations with Taiwanese suppliers, Japanese lead firms have deepened their relationships as Taiwan has entered a more technologically based stage of development. Taiwan has also been pivotal in Japan-Taiwan-China relations b…
Reconstructing Kobe
Six thousand people died and hundreds of thousands lost their homes when an earthquake hit Kobe in January 1995. The Hanshin Earthquake was the largest disaster to affect postwar Japan and one of the most destructive postwar natural disasters to strike a developed country. Although the media focused on the disaster's immediate effects, the long-term reconstruction efforts have gone largely unexplored. Based on fieldwork and interviews with planne…
Large and Latecomer Firms
This paper focuses on the role of Taiwan's ‘latecomer firms’ that are also large firms in developing technological capability within the electronics industry. Taiwan illustrates a latecomer country that has industrialised in the late twentieth century through export‐based industrialisation and latecomer firms are indigenous influences shaping this process. Large firms comprise a business segment distinctive from small firms and giant MNCs, and ar…
The Japanese Innovation System
This essay introduces the articles in a special edition on advances made in the Japanese innovation system. It sets the papers against a broad overview of traditional Japanese approaches to innovation and recent calls for change. An analysis is made of the geography of high‐technology factories and recent job losses in the manufacturing sector. The new policies and their impact on Japan’s national and regional innovation systems are then outlined…
The Kyoto Research Park and Innovation in Japanese Cities
Kyoto is well known as a historical city in Japan long associated with culture, shrines, temples, and craft industries, and more recently with high technology and innovation. It is also the only Japanese city to boast a privately operated research park in its central district. Thanks to local businesses initiatives, the Kyoto Research Park (KRP) is home to a new generation of high-tech ventures, with nearly half of its 240 tenant companies coming…
The Embedded Corporation
Flying Geese In Asia
Pacific Asia has looked to direct foreign investment (DFI) to achieve economic growth and technological catch-up, and Japanese multinational corporations (MNCs) have responded massively. This paper evaluates Japanese MNCs as a source of industrial learning and technological transfer in the region, drawing from a large research literature and from the authors’ own surveys of Japanese DFI in the electronics sector. Japan's historic learning-based a…
Flying Geese In Asia
Pacific Asia has looked to direct foreign investment (DFI) to achieve economic growth and technological catch‐up, and Japanese multinational corporations (MNCs) have responded massively. This paper evaluates Japanese MNCs as a source of industrial learning and technological transfer in the region, drawing from a large research literature and from the authors’ own surveys of Japanese DFI in the electronics sector. Japan's historic learning‐based a…
Japan at the Millennium
Joining the Past and Present in Japan / David W. Edgington Part 1: Economic and Political Systems 2. Economics: An Interpretative Essay / Keizo Nagatani 3. The Labour Movement's Road to the Millennium / Lonny E. Carlile 4. Japan's High Seas Fisheries in the North Pacific Ocean: Food Security and Foreign Policy / Roger Smith Part 2: Japan's Identity and Youth 5. Postwar Japan and Manchuria / Bill Sewell 6. May the Saru River Flow: The Nibutani Dam…
Crossing Cultures, Learning to Export
In this article, trade is conceptualized as a cultural as well as an economic and political process. In this view, exporting connects market intelligence with production intelligence on either side of national, typically cultural, borders. These connections frequently imply alternative, mutually influencing, forms of communication and learning that have various implications for local development. A model of relational market intelligence is outli…
Can Japan Compete
Inside Japanese Business
During the Pacific War the Japanese government recruited hundreds of thousands of workers for military construction projects throughout the occupied territories. Mistreatment of workers was widespread, and the number of deaths arising from beatings, malnutrition, and disease was enormous, rivaling the holocaust of Europe. The victims were primarily unskilled laborers drawn from cities and rural areas across Asia. Most were men, but many women and…
Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century
Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century: Contemporary Responses to Depopulation and Socioeconomic Decline, Peter Matanle and Anthony S. Rausch (Eds) with the Shrinking Regions Research Group
Japanese Real Estate Investment in Canadian Cities and Regions, 1985–1993
The location and type of Japanese property investments in Canada are examined as a case study of the increasing globalization of property markets and the remarkable rise of Japanese international investors in the late 1980s. Unpublished official statistics and company interviews indicate investment patterns had uneven implications for Canada's cities and regions. Even though Toronto is often seen as Canada's world city, Japanese investors as a wh…
Foreign Direct Investment and the Flying Geese Model
This paper is a critical examination of the 'flying geese' and 'billiard ball' models of foreign direct investment (FDI) and their ability to explain the spatial expansion of Japanese electronics multinationals (MNCs) in Asia-Pacific countries from 1985 to 1996. Data on Japanese FDI are analyzed in this region at the aggregate, sectoral, and firm level. The paper commences with a review of the flying geese model, especially that version which int…
Japanese direct foreign investment and the Asian financial crisis
Locational Preferences of Japanese Real Estate Investors in North America
Attention has been devoted to the globalization of international property investments during the 1980s and the role of Japanese investors in major financial centers and tourist resorts. This research seeks to establish how the locational preferences of Japanese investors in North American real estate markets were established. It utilizes a survey of 39 Japanese investment companies, together with important secondary data on investment outcomes, a…
International Trade, Production Chains and Corporate Stategies
EDGINGTON D. W. and HAYTER R. (1997) International trade, production chains and corporate strategies: Japan's timber trade with British Columbia, Reg. Studies 31, 151-166. This paper discusses the construct of the production chain as a way of understanding the dynamics of regional development within a global economy. The production chain concept is developed as a set of integrated production, trade and service functions which add value to particu…
The Geography of Endaka
EDGINGTON D. W. (1994) The geography of endaka: industrial transformation and regional employment changes in Japan, 1986–1991, Reg. Studies 28, 521–535. The paper assesses the implications of Japan's severe currency realignment of the mid-1980s (endaka) for national and regional employment trends. Disaggregated data are used to show that the sudden deterioration in the Japanese labour market following 1985, and its subsequent recovery up to 1991,…
Restructuring Japan’s Rustbelt
The crisis of Japan’s political economy raises the question of how it has dealt with the restructuring of its peripheral industrial regions, and the degree to which it has embraced neoliberal policies. I argue that the spread of neoliberalism in Japan has been uneven, shaped by local settings and adopted only selectively. To make this case, the article focuses on restructuring in Muroran City (2010 population, 94,600), a city of steel and heavy i…
Flying Geese In Asia
Pacific Asia has looked to direct foreign investment (DFI) to achieve economic growth and technological catch‐up, and Japanese multinational corporations (MNCs) have responded massively. This paper evaluates Japanese MNCs as a source of industrial learning and technological transfer in the region, drawing from a large research literature and from the authors’ own surveys of Japanese DFI in the electronics sector. Japan's historic learning‐based a…
Firms, Governments and Innovation in the Chukyo Region of Japan
The study of innovation mechanisms in one of Japan's major industrial regions (Chukyo, based around Nagoya) is explored using a four-part model. This identifies the role of core assembly firms and their sub-contractors, national and local government agencies, local chambers of commerce and private-sector lobby groups. The Chukyo region innovation system (CRIS) was found to exhibit long-term stability and appears to have weathered the economic cha…
Japanese service sector multinationals and the hierarchy of Pacific Rim cities
The explosive growth of Japanese service sector activities overseas since 1985 has had a significant impact on Pacific Rim cities. However, previous accounts of Japanese direct foreign investment in services have been constrained by official statistics which provide comparative information only at a national level. This paper uses establishment level data to assess changes in the spatial patterns of Japanese service firms among 35 cities as well …
Managing industrial restructuring in the Kansai region of Japan
Influences on the location and behaviour of transnational corporations
The Kyoto Research Park and Innovation in Japanese Cities
Kyoto is well known as a historical city in Japan long associated with culture, shrines, temples, and craft industries, and more recently with high technology and innovation. It is also the only Japanese city to boast a privately operated research park in its central district. Thanks to local businesses initiatives, the Kyoto Research Park (KRP) is home to a new generation of high-tech ventures, with nearly half of its 240 tenant companies coming…
City profile
Cutting against the Grain
For many Western corporations, Japan poses formidable barriers to export and investment. Although trade policy confrontations with Japan have been scrutinized, the strategies pursued by Western corporations in attempting to penetrate the Japanese economy remain poorly understood. This paper addresses this lacuna via a corporate case study. Conceptually, we provide an alternative to the established theory of the international firm, outlining a mod…
Economic Restructuring in Yokohama
Many Japanese cities are discovering ‘internationalisation’ as a means of solving problems associated with economic restructuring. Yokohama, Japan's second largest city, owes its very existence to Japan's need to internationalise and open up to trade in the 1850s. In the past twenty-five years or so the city has lost much of its pivotal importance as a gateway port, as new forms of contact with the rest of the world have eroded the preeminent rol…
Organisational and Technological Change and the Future Role of the Central Business District
A critical re-examination of traditional urban theory concerning central area office and retail activities suggests that an appreciation of dynamic organisational and technological processes may be missing from the planner's insights into causes of change in the Central Business District. This paper reviews some Australian evidence concerning organisational and technological change, and shows that these processes are already impinging upon the Ce…
Glocalization” and Regional Headquarters
For Japanese multinational corporations (MNCs), glocalization (dochakuka) refers to the challenge of balancing the need to adapt foreign subsidiaries to local circumstances and to integrate corporate operations as a whole. This article addresses the regional headquarters (RHQ) strategies of electronics MNCs in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region. From the perspective of corporate governance, RHQs are at the fulcrum of the id…
Crossing Cultures, Learning to Export
In this article, trade is conceptualized as a cultural as well as an economic and political process. In this view, exporting connects market intelligence with production intelligence on either side of national, typically cultural, borders. These connections frequently imply alternative, mutually influencing, forms of communication and learning that have various implications for local development. A model of relational market intelligence is outli…
The New Wave
The paper examines the sectoral and spatial characteristics of Japanese direct investment in Canada during the 1980s. Increased levels of investment and corporate startups represented, by the end of the decade, a ‘new wave’ of Japanese business activity in this country, and in many ways this was a clear break from previous sectoral and spatial patterns. Overall, Japanese investment in Canada diversified and contributed to strengthening the econom…
Some Urban and Regional Consequences of Japanese Transnational Activity in Australia
In this paper, I address the spatial patterns of Japanese transnational corporations (TNCs) in Australia over the last two decades. It is argued that-in the context of growing economic linkages between Australia, Japan, and the Western Pacific-an understanding of TNC behaviour is essential to make sense of the subnational spatial outcomes arising from economic integration between countries. Accordingly, after discussing the history and characteri…
Changing patterns of central business district office activity in Melbourne
Although the future role of office activity within city centres has been widely discussed, an appreciation of dynamic macro‐level processes has been missing from the urban planner's insights into causes of change in the Central Business District. This paper looks at recent patterns of office employment in Melbourne's Central Business District and finds that there are trends which suggest a reduction in linkages between firms, a potential for redu…
TheIn Situ Upgrading of Japanese Electronics Firms inMalaysian Industrial Clusters
The ability of clusters generated by direct foreign investment (DFI) in emerging economies to generate sustained, value-added growth is a matter of controversy. This article assesses this debate with reference to the role of Japanese electronics multinational corporations (MNCs) in the development of clusters inMalaysia. Conceptually, we present a typology ofDFI-generated industrial clusters that represent increasing degrees of commitment to loca…
Large and Latecomer Firms
This paper focuses on the role of Taiwan's ‘latecomer firms’ that are also large firms in developing technological capability within the electronics industry. Taiwan illustrates a latecomer country that has industrialised in the late twentieth century through export‐based industrialisation and latecomer firms are indigenous influences shaping this process. Large firms comprise a business segment distinctive from small firms and giant MNCs, and ar…
Organisational and Technological Change and the Future Role of the Central Business District
A critical re-examination of traditional urban theory concerning central area office and retail activities suggests that an appreciation of dynamic organisational and technological processes may be missing from the planner's insights into causes of change in the Central Business District. This paper reviews some Australian evidence concerning organisational and technological change, and shows that these processes are already impinging upon the Ce…
Changing patterns of central business district office activity in Melbourne
Although the future role of office activity within city centres has been widely discussed, an appreciation of dynamic macro‐level processes has been missing from the urban planner's insights into causes of change in the Central Business District. This paper looks at recent patterns of office employment in Melbourne's Central Business District and finds that there are trends which suggest a reduction in linkages between firms, a potential for redu…
Some Urban and Regional Consequences of Japanese Transnational Activity in Australia
In this paper, I address the spatial patterns of Japanese transnational corporations (TNCs) in Australia over the last two decades. It is argued that-in the context of growing economic linkages between Australia, Japan, and the Western Pacific-an understanding of TNC behaviour is essential to make sense of the subnational spatial outcomes arising from economic integration between countries. Accordingly, after discussing the history and characteri…
Australian Institute of Urban Studies 17th Annual Conference, Canberra
Tianjin
Influences on the location and behaviour of transnational corporations
Managing industrial restructuring in the Kansai region of Japan
The Potential for Partnership
Economic Restructuring in Yokohama
Many Japanese cities are discovering ‘internationalisation’ as a means of solving problems associated with economic restructuring. Yokohama, Japan's second largest city, owes its very existence to Japan's need to internationalise and open up to trade in the 1850s. In the past twenty-five years or so the city has lost much of its pivotal importance as a gateway port, as new forms of contact with the rest of the world have eroded the preeminent rol…
Japanese Manufacturing Investment in Australia
THE CHANGED ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT of the 1980s has led to a reassessment of the role of direct foreign investment (DFI). In host countries it has come to be seen a more favourable, technical and less political light. Partly response to the dire economic conditions of the international debt crisis, multinational corporations (MNCs) are now being embraced by both developing and developed countries as harbingers of growth and restructuring around the…
Trade and Investment Relations Among the United States, Canada, and Japan
The economic futures of the United States, Canada, and Japan are tightly linked by the extremely powerful trade network these nations share. Yet because of trade and domestic policies aimed at preserving economic and, some argue, cultural integrity, there has at times been considerable friction among the three nations. Much of the recent trade animus of the U.S. has been aimed Japan, the country with the largest trade surplus with the United Stat…
Japanese Business Down Under
Part I: Australia's Role in the Internationalistion of the Japanese Economy 1. Japanese Transnational Corporations: Motivations and Overseas Strategies 2. Japan, Australia and the Pacific Rim Part II: Japanese Business Activity in Australia, 1957-1985 3. Trading Companies 4. Manufacturing Companies 5. Banks and Financial Institutions Part III: Patterns and Implications 6. Patterns of Japanese Business Activity in Australia 7. Conclusions
Land-Use Change
The Geography of Endaka
EDGINGTON D. W. (1994) The geography of endaka: industrial transformation and regional employment changes in Japan, 1986–1991, Reg. Studies 28, 521–535. The paper assesses the implications of Japan's severe currency realignment of the mid-1980s (endaka) for national and regional employment trends. Disaggregated data are used to show that the sudden deterioration in the Japanese labour market following 1985, and its subsequent recovery up to 1991,…
The New Wave
The paper examines the sectoral and spatial characteristics of Japanese direct investment in Canada during the 1980s. Increased levels of investment and corporate startups represented, by the end of the decade, a ‘new wave’ of Japanese business activity in this country, and in many ways this was a clear break from previous sectoral and spatial patterns. Overall, Japanese investment in Canada diversified and contributed to strengthening the econom…
Pacific Asia in the 21st Century
Japanese Cities in the World Economy
Locational Preferences of Japanese Real Estate Investors in North America
Attention has been devoted to the globalization of international property investments during the 1980s and the role of Japanese investors in major financial centers and tourist resorts. This research seeks to establish how the locational preferences of Japanese investors in North American real estate markets were established. It utilizes a survey of 39 Japanese investment companies, together with important secondary data on investment outcomes, a…
Japanese Multinationals in the Changing Context of Regional Policy
The locational behaviour of Japanese multinational companies in the changing context of regional policy - theoretical framework, empirical evidence interpretation of the empirical evidence in the light of the theoretical framework and the policy implications
Japanese Real Estate Investment in Canadian Cities and Regions, 1985–1993
The location and type of Japanese property investments in Canada are examined as a case study of the increasing globalization of property markets and the remarkable rise of Japanese international investors in the late 1980s. Unpublished official statistics and company interviews indicate investment patterns had uneven implications for Canada's cities and regions. Even though Toronto is often seen as Canada's world city, Japanese investors as a wh…
The Changing Geography of Asia
International Trade, Production Chains and Corporate Stategies
EDGINGTON D. W. and HAYTER R. (1997) International trade, production chains and corporate strategies: Japan's timber trade with British Columbia, Reg. Studies 31, 151-166. This paper discusses the construct of the production chain as a way of understanding the dynamics of regional development within a global economy. The production chain concept is developed as a set of integrated production, trade and service functions which add value to particu…
Cutting against the Grain
For many Western corporations, Japan poses formidable barriers to export and investment. Although trade policy confrontations with Japan have been scrutinized, the strategies pursued by Western corporations in attempting to penetrate the Japanese economy remain poorly understood. This paper addresses this lacuna via a corporate case study. Conceptually, we provide an alternative to the established theory of the international firm, outlining a mod…
Globalization & Decentralization
Japanese service sector multinationals and the hierarchy of Pacific Rim cities
The explosive growth of Japanese service sector activities overseas since 1985 has had a significant impact on Pacific Rim cities. However, previous accounts of Japanese direct foreign investment in services have been constrained by official statistics which provide comparative information only at a national level. This paper uses establishment level data to assess changes in the spatial patterns of Japanese service firms among 35 cities as well …
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