Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in facing ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA)

The ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) provides certain challenges, implications and opportunities to their member-countries. Faced with globalization of ACFTA, the issues articulate a number of propositions for SMEs in the region. The purpose of this paper is to address issues related to the readi...

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Main Authors:	Abdullah, Moha Asri, Hoetoro, Arif
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	IIUM Press 2015
Subjects:	HC94 By region or country
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/48913/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/48913/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/48913/3/Chapter16-Empowering-SMEs-Facing-ACFTA-completed1.pdf

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spelling	iium-489132017-04-26T00:20:59Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/48913/ Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in facing ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) Abdullah, Moha Asri Hoetoro, Arif HC94 By region or country The ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) provides certain challenges, implications and opportunities to their member-countries. Faced with globalization of ACFTA, the issues articulate a number of propositions for SMEs in the region. The purpose of this paper is to address issues related to the readiness of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in facing the globalization by taking a special case of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA). The methodology evaluates the macroeconomic overview of ASEAN-China economies, it elucidates economic cooperation and free trade area (FTA) between ASEAN and China by building ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA). The findings have an important role in supporting national economic development and SMEs that can be observed in a number of aspects. The implementation of ACFTA will restructure regional industries and provide new challenges and opportunities to countries grouped in ASEAN whereby the SMEs, the dominant form of enterprises in ASEAN members, are generally not well positioned to respond to these challenges. Effective cooperation among SMEs through clustering strategy, can lead to achieve collective efficiency for gaining access to global markets beyond the reach of individual SMEs. IIUM Press Abdullah, Moha Asri Owolabi Yusuf, Muhammad-Bashir 2015 Book Chapter PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/48913/3/Chapter16-Empowering-SMEs-Facing-ACFTA-completed1.pdf Abdullah, Moha Asri and Hoetoro, Arif (2015) Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in facing ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA). In: Small and Medium Enterprises In Muslim Countries. IIUM Press Series of Textbook from the Islamic Perspectives . IIUM Press, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 337-360. ISBN 9789674183035 http://iiumpress.iium.edu.my/bookshop
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spellingShingle	HC94 By region or country Abdullah, Moha Asri Hoetoro, Arif Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in facing ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA)
description	The ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) provides certain challenges, implications and opportunities to their member-countries. Faced with globalization of ACFTA, the issues articulate a number of propositions for SMEs in the region. The purpose of this paper is to address issues related to the readiness of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in facing the globalization by taking a special case of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA). The methodology evaluates the macroeconomic overview of ASEAN-China economies, it elucidates economic cooperation and free trade area (FTA) between ASEAN and China by building ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA). The findings have an important role in supporting national economic development and SMEs that can be observed in a number of aspects. The implementation of ACFTA will restructure regional industries and provide new challenges and opportunities to countries grouped in ASEAN whereby the SMEs, the dominant form of enterprises in ASEAN members, are generally not well positioned to respond to these challenges. Effective cooperation among SMEs through clustering strategy, can lead to achieve collective efficiency for gaining access to global markets beyond the reach of individual SMEs.
author2	Abdullah, Moha Asri
author_facet	Abdullah, Moha Asri Abdullah, Moha Asri Hoetoro, Arif
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author	Abdullah, Moha Asri Hoetoro, Arif
author_sort	Abdullah, Moha Asri
title	Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in facing ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA)
title_short	Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in facing ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA)
title_full	Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in facing ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA)
title_fullStr	Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in facing ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA)
title_full_unstemmed	Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in facing ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA)
title_sort	empowering small and medium enterprises (smes) in facing asean-china free trade area (acfta)
publisher	IIUM Press
publishDate	2015
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Empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in facing ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA)

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