Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Rasiah, Rajah
Author-Email: rasiah@intech.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Title: Systemic Coordination and Human Capital Development: Knowledge Flows in Malaysia's
	 MNC-Driven Electronics Clusters
Abstract: Using two MNC dominated electronics clusters in Malaysia, this paper examines the
	 development of human capital from two knowledge and skills acquisition modes -
	 formal education and learning by performing - which were dominant in the successful
	 evolution of industrial districts. Ineffective systemic coordination throughout the
	 country from federal institutions has restricted the supply of high tech human
	 capital from formal institutions of education and training. Hence, firms in Penang
	 and Kelang Valley have faced growing demand-supply deficits. Restrictive
	 immigration policies have hampered firms' options of seeking high tech human
	 capital from abroad. Differential systemic coordination at the regional level has
	 produced different levels of network synergies in Penang and Kelang Valley.
	 Stronger systemic coordination and network cohesion has stimulated greater
	 differentiation and division of labor, engendering the movement of tacit and
	 experiential knowledge embodied in human capital to support industrial dynamism in
	 Penang. Weak systemic coordination and network cohesion has confined MNCs to
	 largely truncated operations without significant levels of differentiation and
	 division of labor in the Kelang Valley
Keywords: Human Resources Development, Skills Development, Tacit knowledge, Experiential
	 Knowledge, Systemic Coordination, Electronics MNCs, Malaysia
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 2002
Number: 07
File-URL: http://www.intech.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/2002-7.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 299 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:200207