A New and Postmodern Theory of Malaysian Corporatism? Preliminary Conceptual and Theoretical Outline

In this paper I outline and discuss the theories and concepts that I am using in my research on Malaysia Inc and Malaysian Corporatism. Malaysia Incorporated can be described to be a product of an authoritarian form of corporatism. This concept started out as a seemingly innocent policy to encoura...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mohd Kamal, Khairil Annuar
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Economics and Business (UNIMAS) 2012
Subjects:
Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/2296/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/2296/1/A%2Bnew%2Band%2Bpostmodern%2Btheory%2Bof%2Bmalaysian%2Bcorporatism%2B%2528abstract%2529.pdf
Description
Summary:In this paper I outline and discuss the theories and concepts that I am using in my research on Malaysia Inc and Malaysian Corporatism. Malaysia Incorporated can be described to be a product of an authoritarian form of corporatism. This concept started out as a seemingly innocent policy to encourage cooperation between the private sector and government; but has now evolved into a form of corporatism. In this paper I consider some of the theoretical and conceptual discussions. In this paper I will outline the key concepts and theories that will be used as foundations to build my theory of Malaysian Corporatism.