Economic Integration in East Asia

Charles Harvie is currently the Director of the Centre for Small Business and Regional Research at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the sole or joint author of 6 books and the editor of a further 10 books published by Edward Elgar (UK/USA) and Palgrave-Macmillan (UK). He has published over two hundred articles in the form of refereed journal articles, book chapters and refereed conference papers. Dionisius Narjoko is a researcher at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). Dr. Narjoko received his PhD in Economics from the Australian National University. His research concentrates on the topics related to industrial organization, international trade, and development economics, including industrialization. Sothea Oum, an Economist, joined the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) Jakarta in 2009, Indonesia as an Associate Researcher after completing his PhD in Economics from Monash University, Australia. At ERIA, he manages region-wide research projects for ASEAN and East Asian economies. Besides computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling, his research interests are on ASEAN and East Asian integration and community building process, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Social Protection, Disaster Management, Income Distribution, and Poverty.

• 1. Introduction 2. SMEs and Regional Production Networks 3. SMEs and Production Networks – Framework 4. SME Participation in Production Networks: an Analytical Framework 5. Constraints to Growth and Firm Characteristic Determinants Of SME Participation in Production Networks 6. Constraints on SMEs and their Participation in Production Networks: Experiences of Countries Studied 7. Constraints, Determinants of SMEs’ Innovation, and the Role of Government Supports 8. Small and Medium Enterprises’ Access to Finance: Evidece from Selected Asian Economies 9. Conclusion and Policy Recommendations

"The book is carefully presented with clear details. While the book is quite academic, interspersed with econometric terms in some chapters, it is written with great clarity and sound economic explanation. The most valuable contribution of this book lies in the two large extensive surveys conducted, producing rich survey results and analyses… The book is highly recommended for researchers and postgraduate students, studying SME’s and production networks in East Asia. Policymakers should also find this book to be very useful resource in understanding the role of SMEs in the economy, and also to better understand the constraints facing them, thereby gaining insights for policy design."Wai Heng Loke, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, The Journal of Southeast Asian Economies