Organisational change and success in a government enterprise: Malaysia’s Federal Land Development Agency

Michael O’Donnell, Norma Mansor, Kunaraguru Yogeesvaran and Azlan Rashid
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Michael O’Donnell: UNSW Canberra, Australia
Kunaraguru Yogeesvaran: Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister’s Department, Malaysia
Azlan Rashid: Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister’s Department, Malaysia

The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2017, vol. 28, issue 2, 234-251

Abstract: This article charts and analyses the change path and various transformations of Malaysia’s state-owned enterprise, the Federal Land Development Agency, from its establishment in the 1960s to the present. The analysis supports arguments that the model of the developmental state, based on planned public/private cooperation, provides an alternative policy prescription to that of sole reliance on the self-regulating market. The Federal Land Development Agency is shown not only to have survived but also to have thrived as an economic development arm of the Malaysian state, successfully adapting to the changing environment in which it operates. To delineate the changes, a framework of punctuated equilibrium is utilised as it best captures the instances of rapid discontinuous change and the periods of incremental change and relative stability.

Keywords: Developmental state; economic development; FELDA; land settlement; Malaysia; punctuated equilibrium; state-owned enterprises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L73 O13 O21 P41 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/1035304617706847

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