The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has come under much criticism for the violation of their held principles, which are also often referred to as the “ASEAN way.” In particular, scholars have pointed to situations in which ASEAN has apparently violated the sacred principle of non-intervention, which in turn has led to the questioning of the authenticity of the “ASEAN way.” In fac...

This paper applies Export Similarity Index to examine China’s export potential to ASEAN market by comparing China with six main ASEAN member countries (ASEAN 6) and the other main trade partners of ASEAN. It shows that competition is severe on industrial level in ASEAN market, and the bilateral trade potential is uncertain. While accounting for the factors of size, distance and integration etc....

This paper examines corporate identity on three different levels: regional; national and industrial. It then empirically integrates corporate identity with strategy within ASEAN corporations. Multi-leveled analyses are drawn from statistical results obtained from an already established database of 109 ASEAN public-listed companies. It seeks to relate corporate identity to the anatomy of strateg...

Without a perception of a common threat from China and in the presence of the continuing tensions and disputes among ASEAN countries, intra-ASEAN defense cooperation remains limited. Over the past decade, all ASEAN decisions related to defense expenditures, weapon acquisitions, and force modernization have been made on a national basis without intra-ASEAN coordination, reflecting ASEAN interest...

International nurse migration among Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries has the potential to increase the effectiveness of health services and access for the ASEAN Economic Community. Providing equivalent nursing qualifications and licensure standards and increasing the availability of the nursing workforce has become a challenge for ASEAN members. The purpose of this study...

In recent years, ASEAN has been accelerating its efforts to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. As a member of ASEAN, Myanmar has a mandate to implement a number of policy reforms, as agreed to in the AEC Blueprint. Key reforms include trade liberalization and facilitation in accordance with the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA), investment liberalization and facilitation...

This paper estimates the impact of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement on the trade flows between China and the ASEAN countries. A gravity model with FTA specification is used to estimate the treatment effect of ACFTA. Since there are other unobserved variables that correlate with both the trade flows between China–ASEAN and the decision to form ACFTA, a cross-sectional OLS regression runs the...

 The effect of technology spillovers is widely considered as one of the main channels through which domestic firms benefit from FDI, and plays an important role in economic development of host countries. Based on the analysis framework for technology spillovers established by Borensztein et al. (1998), this paper will analyse and try to figure out the development patterns of ASEAN by utilizing ...

It has almost been a rule, whenever ASEAN Leaders gather in the resort town of Bali, Indonesia, there will be a major development to the regional organisation to watch out for. This year, the 19th ASEAN Summit will be held in Bali again. The clues for the hype this year are well reflected in Indonesia’s Chairmanship theme for ASEAN this year “ASEAN Community in a Global Community of Nations”, w...

The ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) was set up in 1993 and has already shown significant effects by 2010. This study empirically investigates the effect of trade creation on intra-ASEAN trade for the period of 1986 to 2010. Using the gravity model, we find that major determinants of bilateral trade in ASEAN are GDP, population, relative endowment, distance and common border. A dummy variable ...