Structure of Public Governance Institutions and Their Impact on Delocalisation of Labour-Intensive Industries

Kaarel Kilvits () and Alari Purju ()
Additional contact information
Alari Purju: Estonian Business School; School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology

No 130, Working Papers from Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology

Abstract: The public governance issues and their impact on labour intensive industries are the main problems discussed in this paper. The governance possibilities at global, EU, national, local and sector levels are described. Policies have been applied in different fields like industrial policy, innovation policy, foreign trade, foreign direct investments (FDI), labour relations, taxes and subsidies, support to clusters, support to local companies to improve position in the value chain. A matrix that links together levels and fields of policies has been developed for analysis. One important aspect is related to discussion of EU governance models in innovation and labour market policies. The issue is linked closely to the general choice between more market based or more intervention based policies and determines the scale and scope of measures applied at the EU level and their influence through harmonisation efforts on national policies. The role of multinational enterprises (MNE) and their relationships with different level governing institutions is another important factor. The critical areas where economic interests of MNEs and policy goals of governing institutions meet are labour market regulations, FDI related problems, conditions for foreign trade, innovation, taxation and state aid. Subcontracting, outsourcing, off-shoring and offshore outsourcing, value chain and clusters are the specific concepts that describe forms in which organisational and technological capacities have been matched together. One task of the current paper has been to clarify those concepts and to formulate research questions for further empirical study in the field of electronics, software, garment and footwear industries.

Keywords: industry; delocalisation; deindustrialisation; public governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 F42 H70 J40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33
Date: 2005
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-pbe and nep-tra
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published in Working Papers in Economics, School of Economics and Business Administration,Tallinn University of Technology (TUTWPE), Volume 16, Pages 21-53

Downloads: (external link)
http://deepthought.ttu.ee/majandus/tekstid/TUTWPE_05_130.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ttu:wpaper:130

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Urve Venesaar ().