The politics of high-tech growth : developmental network states in the global economy / Seán Ó Riain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ó Riain, S. (Seán)

Series:

Structural analysis in the social sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Economic aspects--Ireland.

Information technology.

Economic development--Social aspects--Ireland.

Economic development.

Industrial policy--Social aspects--Ireland.

Industrial policy.

Technological innovations--Government policy--Ireland.

Technological innovations.

Computer software industry--Ireland.

Computer software industry.

Technological innovations--Government policy.

Social aspects.

Economic development--Social aspects.

Information technology--Economic aspects.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

xviii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2004]

Contents:

Part I Development in the Global Information Economy

1. Networks of Development: Globalization, High Technology, and the Celtic Tiger 3

2. State Developmentalisms and Capitalist Globalizations 15

3. Explaining the Celtic Tiger 39

Part II Software and the Celtic Tiger

4. "Location Nation": Remaking Society for Foreign Investment 69

5. Indigenous Innovation and the Developmental Network State 90

6. Making Global and Local 111

7. The Class Politics of the Global Region 127

Part III The Politics of the Developmental Network State

8. Institutions of the Developmental Network State 143

9. Politics and Change in Development Regimes 167

10. Developmental Bureaucratic and Network States in Comparative Perspective 193

11. Futures of the Network State 232

2.1. Developmental Bureaucratic and Network States 37

3.1. Key Indicators of the Turnaround in the Irish Economy, 1970-2002 42

3.2. Institutional Change in the Irish Political Economy, 1960-2000 46

3.3. Irish-Owned Industry, 1991-1999 50

3.4. Foreign-Owned Industry, 1991-1999 52

3.5. Number of Companies, Employment, and Revenues of Foreign and Irish Ownership in the Irish Software Industry, 1987-1997 57

3.6. Sales and Exports in the Indigenous Software Industry in India, Ireland, and Israel, 1993-1997 59

3.7. Sectoral Employment Growth, 1961-2000 61

4.1. Software Localization and Fulfillment, 1992-2001 82

4.2. Foreign-Owned Companies with Software Development Operations, 1992-2001 85

5.1. Trends in Private Equity Investment, 1997-1999 (000s of Irish Pounds) 96

5.2. R&D Funding in Indigenous Software Firms, 1993-1995 98

5.3. The Impact of State Grant Aid and Other Factors on Product Orientation, Export Orientation, and Employment among Indigenous Software Firms 102

5.4. A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Grant Aid on Employment among Indigenous Software Firms, 1994-1997 103

5.5. Leading Indigenous Software Companies, 1992-2001 106

6.1. Local and International Alliances among Companies, 1997 113

6.2. Percentage of Companies Having either Technology/Business or Contracting Alliances with either Irish or International Firms, 1997 114

6.3. Explaining the Pattern of Interfirm Networking for Irish Firms 115

6.4. Factors Affecting Overseas Employment among Indigenous Software Firms 117

7.1. Emigration Rates of Degree-Level Graduates, 1984-1996 128

7.2. Managerial and Professional Occupations among Irish-Born Residents of the United States 129

7.3. Inward Migration Rates by Country and Year of Return for Usual Residents of the Republic of Ireland, 1996 132

8.1. The Embeddedness of State Agencies and Commissions 150

10.1. Strategies of State Developmentalism in Comparative Perspective 196

10.2. Comparative Developmental State Institutions 206

10.3. Comparative Historical Development of Developmental Bureaucratic and Network States 213

11.1. Three Futures of the Network State 238

2.1. Stylized Version of Senghaas/Mjoset Model of Autocentric Development

2.2. Dilemmas of Institution-Building in Developmental States

3.1. The Vicious Circle of Fordist Underdevelopment

3.2. The Virtuous Circle of Post-Fordist Development

4.1. Technology-Driven Commodity Chains

11.1. The Vicious Circle of Neoliberal Cost Competitiveness

11.2. The Virtuous Circle of the Socially Embedded Economy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.

ISBN:

0521830737

OCLC:

52387957

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