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 Final report: Asian EMERGENCE: the World’s Back Office?

Asian EMERGENCE was a research project (2001-2004) 80 per cent financially supported by the European Commission’s Asia-ITC fund, with additional support from the project’s partners: Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, the Asia Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand, the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India, and in Europe the Institute for Employment Studies in Brighton, UK, and Forschungs und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt, in Vienna, Austria.

Closely linked with the successful EMERGENCE projects in Europe and Australia, the project used a similar methodology to explore the dynamics of eWork in Asia, home of some of the most dramatic success stories to date in the emerging eEconomy. (See our earlier news article.)

Asian EMERGENCE focussed not just simplistically on a few media-hyped eWork magnets, however. Amongst other research issues, it cast a serious critical eye on such questions as:

  • How can we explain the differences in the abilities of different regions and nations to attract eWork, despite similarities in the availability of qualified labour and other significant factors?

  • To what extent do national institutions still shape the geographical structure of global markets?

  • What are the challenges for policy-makers and training agencies wishing to prepare the ground for new inward investment in eServices?

  • How can SMEs in Asia identify global markets for their eServices?

  • What are the challenges confronting managers and employees involved in eWork relocation within, to and from Asia (from both ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ perspectives)?

With the help of national experts based in each country investigated, the Asian EMERGENCE team carried out fieldwork in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam as well as in the European and Australian regions to and from which the eWork is being transferred.

 What Asian EMERGENCE will do

 50 cases, 100 investigations

 An interdisciplinary team
 

 


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