Achieving competitive advantage through strategic and operational partnering in the value chain: The Asia Pacific challenge

Abstract

The Asia Pacific region has witnessed many changes in recent years. For much of the last 15/20 years it has been the source of low-cost production of labour intensive products. More recently there has been a significant shift in economic and business activity. Following the initiative of Singapore, other Asian economies have sought to emulate Singapore’s patterns of growth. Rather than be just another source of low-cost labour (competitive necessity) many are now seeking to create competitive advantage by pursuing government sponsored strategies to establish leadership in knowledge, technology, process and relationship management based industries raising interesting problems and opportunities for Australasian companies.