The 'Unfinished Business' of Malaysia's Decolonisation
The Origins of the Guthrie 'Dawn Raid
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3608249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shakila Yacob (0000-0002-2998-0255, University of Malaya), Nicholas J White (0000-0002-1897-1978, Liverpool John Moores University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 919-960 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x09990308 |
| OpenAlex | W3121923134 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 16 |
In a 'dawn raid' on the London Stock Exchange on 7 September 1981, the premiere British rubber and oil palm conglomerate in Malaysia, the Guthrie Corporation Limited, was taken into local control in less than four hours. This was the most dramatic Malaysian acquisition of a foreign company during the restructuring of the country's post-colonial economy during the 1970s and 1980s, and the Guthrie Dawn Raid remains a celebrated but, at the same time, contested juncture in contemporary Malaysian memory. Drawing upon a variety of sources-including original interviews and correspondence with key participants in, and observers of, the Guthrie Dawn Raid, as well as newly released British documents related to the Anglo-Malaysian events of September 1981-this article presents a new interpretation of the origins of this most iconic of Malaysian corporate takeovers. In particular, it stresses the long-term aspirations of a key (but often overlooked) figure within the late and post-colonial Malay bureaucratic and economic elite, Ismail Mohamed Ali. At the same time, the article emphasizes the specific requirements of Malaysia's New Economic Policy against the backdrop of burgeoning intra-Malaysian ethnic business competition
Bureaucracy · Colonialism · Corporation · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Elite · Malay · New Economic Policy · Political science · Politics · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
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Expropriations of Foreign Property and Political Alliances
Voicing the Malayan Emergency
Adapt or Divest? The New Economic Policy and Foreign Businesses in Malaysia (1970-2000)
Vertical specialisation or linkage development for agro-commodity value chain upgrading? The case of Malaysian palm oil
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Ambiguous decolonisation
Changing corporate domicile
The Settlement of Decolonization and Post-Colonial Economic Development
Dynamic Asia
Bridges to New Business
The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya
Prelude to Merdeka
Changing Directions in Foreign Policy Trends
Western Enterprise in Indonesia and Malaya
The UP Saga
The British Agency Houses in Malaysia
Anglo-Malaysian relations
British Industrial Investment in Malaysia, 1963-1971
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |