Government and the creation of the Celtic Tiger: Can management maintain the momentum?
研究了自1980年代末以来爱尔兰政府政策如何推动经济崛起，并探讨在全球化放缓及成功带来的问题下，爱尔兰企业能否维持增长，对管理者和政策制定者有参考价值。
Executive Summary From the late 1980s, government policies and actions have influenced the remarkable rise in Ireland's economic fortunes. Will Irish business be able to maintain this outstanding performance in the face of a world economic slowdown, and problems brought on by success itself? These questions of sustainability are examined, alongside the implications for management of public policy and of foreign-owned and indigenous Irish enterprises. The model of the ‘flexible developmental state’ (FDS) is applied to Ireland.1 New forms of industrial organization—like transnational networks with their fluid global movements of money, information, and resources—are especially appropriate in the FDS. The FDS government plays a key role in integrating local and global business in three ways. One is to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and then build local networks of production and innovation around the subsidiaries of foreign multinational companies (MNCs). FDI, in the context of a global economy, was the catalyst that animated the developmental process in 1990s Ireland. The second FDS thrust is to cultivate indigenous networks of innovation and encourage them to internationalize. The third element of the FDS is the creation of a stable macroeconomic and financial environment that fostered Irish adaptation to, and participation in, the global economy.2 The ‘flexible’ component of the FDS is that the Irish government, working through state agencies, shaped the organizational cultures and capabilities of both indigenous firms and MNC subsidiaries, but without directly dictating their activities.