1. Singapore's Regionalization Blueprint: A Case of Strategic Management, State Enterprise Network and Selective Intervention
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Chee Sin Koh, Caroline Yeoh, and Charmaine Jialing Cai
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Economic growth ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Selective intervention ,Context (language use) ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Development ,Public administration ,Intervention (law) ,Software portability ,State (polity) ,Blueprint ,Political science ,Economics ,Enterprise private network ,Strategic management ,media_common - Abstract
Strategic management for economic development has been the hallmark of the Singapore ‘success story.’ State-led, market-driven intervention underscored the city-state's development strategies. This paper revisits this development blueprint in the context of Singapore's efforts at regionalization. The paper takes a closer look at Singapore's state enterprise strategy, and the ‘portability’ of the strat-egy–in the framework of Regionalization 2000–beyond the city-state. It concludes that the calculated, schematised efforts, though remarkable, have been overly optimistic and have failed to engender equally compelling results, more often than not frustrated by the intricacies of socio-political realities in the host economies.
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- 2005
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