Transnational Corporations and Human Resource Development
Explores the behaviour of transnational corporations (TNCs) in Malaysian manufacturing firms in relation to employment absorption, human capital formation and technological change, based on a survey of 60 firms randomly selected within the major manufacturing establishments in Malaysia. Argues that TNCs exert an influence in promoting employment, training and innovation and adopt a much more proactive policy towards HRD than the local firms in Malaysia. However, their reluctance to participate and invest substantially in local R&D could result in a gradual reduction of technology flow and stifle the development of domestic innovative capacity. Policy measures are therefore required to induce TNCs to undertake greater R&D activities in Malaysia, and such measures should be conceived in the broader context of the indigenous technological development policy of the country.
Year of publication: |
1994
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Authors: | Aziz Wan Abdullah, Wan |
Published in: |
Personnel Review. - MCB UP Ltd, ISSN 1758-6933, ZDB-ID 1480053-6. - Vol. 23.1994, 5, p. 4-20
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Publisher: |
MCB UP Ltd |
Subject: | Employment | Human resource development | Human capital theory | Innovation | Malaysia | Manufacturing | Technological change | Training | Transnationals | R&D |
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