Of Bumping and Bending
Foreign Universities’ FDI Strategies in Malaysia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10832607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marc Philipp Schulze (0000-0002-4374-1197, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space Flakenstraße 29‐31 Erkner 15537 Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 179-194 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-747X • E-ISSN: 1467-9663 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tesg.12472 |
| OpenAlex | W3117732418 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 39 |
Universities from varying institutional and geographical contexts have increasingly invested in offshore subsidiaries in the Malaysian private higher education sector. Literature on transnational education policy and management as well as economic‐geographic accounts of firms’ transnationalisation or public service provision have not investigated foreign providers’ direct investment and market access strategies in the higher education sector. This paper addresses these gaps, showing how and why foreign actors’ investment and market involvement in Malaysia have changed. Empirical data is drawn from qualitative interviews and policy documents. The research reveals that foreign universities have strategically modified their business partnerships and bi‐national accreditation to bypass and bend state regulation of market access as well as to restructure internal organisation and geographical configuration. The paper proposes conceptualising foreign higher education providers as transnationalising, reflexive networks within networks that respond to dynamic market access regulation by adopting firm‐like investment strategies
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Foreign direct investment · Higher education · Investment (military · Market economy · Political science · Private sector · Restructuring · Finance · Higher Education Governance and Development · International Development and Aid · International Student and Expatriate Challenges
The Developmental State
Gats and the Education Service Industry
Transcending Borders and Traversing Boundaries
Varieties of academic capitalism and entrepreneurial universities
Governing Cross-Border Higher Education
Strategic decoupling, recoupling and global production networks
Empty, Swept and Garnished’
Pathways to global city formation
Varieties of regulatory regimes in Asia
Bringing the State Back In (Yet Again)
Transnationalizing entrepreneurship
Neoliberalism and the geographies of marketization
Global Assemblage
Introduction
Learning by Bumping
Globalizing’ regional development
Neoliberalism, Corporations, and Power
Commentary
Global production networks and the analysis of economic development
The Firm as Social Networks
Spatial' relationships? Towards a reconceptualization of embedded ness
Variegated neoliberalization
The role of institutional dual embeddedness in the strategic local adaptation of international branch campuses
Variegated National Retail Markets
Firms in Territories
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |