Driven by high tech foreign investment, the ''Celtic Tiger'' economy in the Republic of Ireland was one of the economic ''success stories'' of the 1990s. This book argues, however, that the state played a central role in developing the Celtic Tiger economy as well, and particularly, the increasingly important Irish high tech industry. Typically seen as an example of successful market-led globalization, high tech growth in Ireland has actually been promoted by a new form of state intervention in the economy--one that fosters local networks of support through decentralized state institutions drawing on extensive local, national and global resources.
Author(s): Sean O'Riain
Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 288
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SERIES-TITLE......Page 4
TITLE......Page 6
COPYRIGHT......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 8
LIST OF TABLES......Page 10
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 12
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 14
PREFACE......Page 16
PART I DEVELOPMENT IN THE GLOBAL INFORMATION ECONOMY......Page 20
uncertainties of globalization......Page 22
the real world of the global information economy......Page 24
the celtic tiger......Page 27
structure of the book......Page 31
2 STATE DEVELOPMENTALISMS AND CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATIONS......Page 34
Capitalist globalizations: multiple, political, interlocking......Page 35
Governing in an era of global capitalisms......Page 36
semiperipheral development after the "development project"......Page 39
Collective developmental strategies......Page 41
Institutions of developmentalism......Page 42
Structures of autocentric development......Page 43
Developmental strategies: the challenge of the global region......Page 45
Institutions: developmentalism and the network state......Page 49
Autocentric Development: from National Fordism to Global Post-Fordism......Page 52
conclusion......Page 55
the rocky road: the vicious circle of underdevelopment......Page 58
explaining away the celtic tiger: market-centered perspectives......Page 62
virtuous circles and post-fordist development......Page 64
industrial upgrading......Page 67
software: the leading sector of the celtic tiger......Page 75
autocentric development within global post-fordism......Page 79
The socioeconomic virtuous circle of global post-fordism......Page 81
The sociopolitical virtuous circle of global post-fordism......Page 83
PART II SOFTWARE AND THE CELTIC TIGER......Page 86
bullets, bytes, and bureaucrats......Page 88
Reshaping the national territory: trade, incentives, communications......Page 90
Reshaping the national population: the expansion of education......Page 92
Reshaping the national state: the "IDA way"......Page 94
technology-driven commodity chains......Page 97
Software localization and the growth of local suppliers......Page 100
Upgrading software services and development......Page 103
foreign investment and the shaping of irish software......Page 107
strategies for indigenous development......Page 109
foreign firms and local technical communities......Page 110
from technical community to dynamic industry......Page 113
Prompting investment and R&D......Page 114
Defining an innovation industry......Page 115
"Making Winners"......Page 117
Assessing the effect of state aid......Page 120
firms from regions: indigenous software in the 1990s......Page 124
conclusion......Page 128
the "glocalization" of software firms......Page 130
local and global networks in irish software......Page 131
institutions and global networks......Page 134
embedding the region: the associational state......Page 135
hierarchies, markets, and global corporate governance......Page 141
conclusion......Page 144
Software and engineering emigration......Page 146
Emigrant and transnational communities......Page 148
Immigration and the Irish software labor force......Page 150
governing the global workplace: the limits of the developmental network state......Page 152
the politics of inequality......Page 157
PART III THE POLITICS OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL NETWORK STATE......Page 160
network structures and state rationalities......Page 162
the national rational state in ireland......Page 164
multiply embedded......Page 168
externally accountable......Page 178
loosely coupled......Page 181
still rational and national after all these years?......Page 182
conclusion......Page 185
politics, institutions, and regime change......Page 186
Crisis: the dilemmas of national self-sufficiency......Page 190
Politics: diverting pressures for development......Page 191
Institutions: the IDA as the center of industrial policy......Page 193
Case study: explaining the IDA's semi-autonomy......Page 196
the rise of network developmentalism......Page 198
Crisis: dilemmas of the FDI regime......Page 200
Politics: the rise of the technical professional class......Page 201
New institutional spaces......Page 202
Case study: from NSC to NSD......Page 206
conclusion......Page 210
10 DEVELOPMENTAL BUREAUCRATIC AND NETWORK STATES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE......Page 212
strategy: export firms and global regions......Page 213
institutions of state developmentalisms......Page 224
the political history of developmental bureaucratic and network states......Page 230
state developmentalisms and the contemporary world system......Page 242
States, networks, and the "Glocal" IT industry......Page 243
Dilemmas of development in a glocal economy......Page 246
politics and the making of the global information economy......Page 251
contradiction and choice in the celtic tiger......Page 252
three futures of the developmental network state......Page 256
toward social rights in the developmental network state......Page 258
Strategies: socializing knowledge, building inclusionary systems of innovation......Page 259
Autocentric development: flexibility and universalism......Page 260
methodological approach......Page 262
Analysis of the development regime, primary data gathered from 1997–2000......Page 263
survey of the software industry......Page 264
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 266
INDEX......Page 284
