INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS

DESCRIPTION:

• Identify the essential factors and sources of firm competitive advantage
• Analyse national competitiveness
• Examine critically the nature of industry and factors beyond
• Read and interpret industrial analysis in both domestic and international media.

SUGGESTED BOOKS:

• Chien, William, Stan Shih & Po-Young Chu, Business Growth Strategies for Asia Pacific, John Wiley & Sons Pte Ltd, Singapore, 2005.
• Church, Jeffrey & Roger Ware (2000), Industrial Organization: A Strategic Approach, Singapore: McGraw Hill Book Companies.
• Dhanani, Shafiq, Indonesia: Strategy for Competiting Competitiveness, UNIDO, Jakarta, 2000.
• Kuncoro, Mudrajad, et al., Ekonomi Industri: Teori, Kebijakan, dan Studi Empiris di Indonesia, PT Widya Sarana Informatika, Yogyakarta, 1997.
• Kuncoro, Mudrajad, Analisis Spasial & Regional: Studi Aglomerasi dan Kluster Industri Indonesia, UPP AMP YKPN, Yogyakarta, 2002.
• Kuncoro, Mudrajad, Ekonomika Industri Indonesia: Menuju Negara Industri 2030?, Andi, Yogyakarta, 2007.
• Kuncoro, Mudrajad & Simon Bambang Sumarno, Indonesia’s Clove Cigarette Industry: SCP and Cluster Analysis, dalam Armida S. Alisjahbana & Bambang P.S. Brodjonegoro (eds.), Regional Development in the Era of Decentralization: Growth, Poverty, and the Environment, Unpad Pres, 2004.
• Martin, Stephen, Industrial Economics: Economic Analysis and Public Policy, 2nd Ed., Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1994.
• Porter, Michael E., Hirotaka Takeuchi & Mariko Sakakibara, Can Japan Compete?, Macmillan Press, London & Basingstoke, 2000.
• Porter, Michael E., The Competitive Advantage of Nations, 6^th ed., Macmillan Press, London & Basingstoke, 1990.

SUGGESTED ARTICLES:

• Krugman, Paul, Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession, Foreign Affairs, volume 73, number 2, March/April 1994.
• Kuncoro, Mudrajad, Regional Clustering of Indonesia’s Manufacturing Industry: A Spatial Analysis With Geographic Information System (GIS), Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business, Vol. 3, no. 3, September, 2001.
• Kuncoro, Mudrajad, Obsesi Daya Saing, Gatra, 26 April 2003.
• Kuncoro, Mudrajad, Quo Vadis Strategi Reformasi BUMN?, Bisnis Indonesia, 4 April 2002.
• Porter, M. E., Clusters and the New Economics of Competition. Harvard Business Review, November-December(6), 77-91, 1998a.
• Porter, M. E., Competing Across Locations: Enhancing Competitive Advantage through a Global Strategy. In M. E. Porter (Ed.), On Competition (pp. 309-48). Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 1998b.
• Reich, Robert B., Who Do We Think They Are?, The American Prospect no. 4 (Winter 1991): 49-53 (http://epn.org/prospect/04/04reic.html).
• Tyson, Laura D’Andrea, They Are Not Us: Why American Ownership Still Matters, The American Prospect no. 4 (Winter 1991): 37-49 (http://epn.org/prospect/ 04/04tyso.html).

SUGGESTED WEB-SITES:

• Carlton & Perloff, http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/carlton_awl/

• IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, http://www02.imd.ch/wcy/
• Church & Ware, http://www.mhhe.com/economics/churchware
• Harvard Business Review, http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu; http://www.hbr.org
• Bloomberg Online: http://www.bloomberg.com
• Euromoney: http://www.emwl.com
• Far Eastern Economic Review: http://www.feer.com
• Mudrajad Kuncoro, http://www.mudrajad.com