This presentation reviews several concepts use by scientists when they characterize Asian and South East Asian corporations and associated networks. From the various criteria available in the literature, a tentative framework is presented, in order to initiate the discussion. Special attention is given to the conceptual confusions between mainland Chinese investments throughout the world, and Chinese/SEA corporations displaying aspects of “chinese culture” and “chinese business practices”. The concepts are narrowed in terms of industrial organisation (i.e. corporate structure, shareholding, private/public ownership, diversification, stock listing, franchising, JV practices), and the boundaries of organisational patterns are investigated, identifying various capitalist organisations from different cultural origins, which share similar patterns. A few examples from the literature are taken in order to explore the links between the spread of the corporate strategies and the increasing needs of natural resources created by the development of emerging economies such as Brazil, India, China. From there, this talk opens the discussion on the possibilities for a common conceptual framework for investigating the corporate strategies in the context of the green economy.
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Seminar 13 March 2013 - Session 5 - Conceptualising corporate strategies versus emerging economic processes- by Jean-Marc Roda
1. Conceptualising
corporate strategies
versus emerging
economic processes
Jean-Marc Roda - roda@cirad.fr
CIRAD - UPM
15/03/2012, Bogor
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7. Why to question corporate
strategies and policies ?
• Economic processes influence corporation strategies and
policies (corporate policies are formal or informal guiding
principles directing a company's activities)
• Emerging transnational corporations involved in the agro-
forest sector have a growing influence on South- South
governments agricultural and forest policies - sometime
more than labels, international standards, boycotts etc...
• Corporate strategies and policies govern expansion plans
and relations/influences with/on governments
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12. Conceptual confusions
• Chinafrica
• Chindiafrica
• Chinese investments in Africa
• Asian corporations in Africa
• “indian” firms (in Africa and SEA) i.e.
OLAM
• “chinese” firms in (Africa and SEA) i.e. RH,
WTK,Vicwood etc.
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13. A list of SEA corporations
involved in oil-palm and forest
• OLAM (“Indian ?”) => Singaporean, family owned and managed
• FELDA (“Malaysian” Private ?) => Federal Land Development Authority,
managed by civil servants
• Sime Darby (“Malaysian” => Former colonial private plantations,
Private ?) now state owned
• Ta Ann (“Chinese” ?) => Malaysian, family owned and managed
• WTK (“Chinese” ?) => Malaysian, family owned and managed
• Sinar Mas (“Indonesian” ?) => Indonesian chinese, family owned and managed
• RH,Vicwood, Afriventures, ...
=> QUESTIONS: what are the pertinent criteria ? ethnics,
corporate structure, shareholding, ownership, management style... ?
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15. Linking corporate structure,
strategy, and policy
• Michael E Porter , 1980 : "Competitive Strategy:
Techniques for analyzing industries and
competitors"
• Murray Weidembaum, 1994: “The bamboo
network”
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16. Building typologies with set of
pertinent variables
Management fund
Sectoral type Family type
type
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diversification
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diversification
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18. Thank you
roda@cirad.fr
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