- [UNTITLED]
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- China: Authoritarian Capitalism
- Hong Kong: Hybrid Capitalism as Catalyst
- India: From Failed Developmental State Towards Hybrid Market Capitalism
- Indonesia: Oligarchic Capitalism
- Japan: Coordinated Capitalism Between Institutional Change and Structural Inertia
- Laos: Frontier Capitalism
- Malaysia: Personal Capitalism
- The Philippines: Inequality–Trapped Capitalism
- Singapore: Open State-Led Capitalism
- South Korea: Plutocratic State-Led Capitalism Reconfiguring
- Taiwan: Sme-Oriented Capitalism in Transition
- Thailand: Post-Developmentalist Capitalism
- Vietnam: Post-State Capitalism
- Business Groups in Asia: An Institutional Perspective
- Corporate Governance and Business Systems in Asia
- Culture and the Business Systems of Asia
- Employment Relations and Human Resource Management in Asia: Explaining Patterns in Asian Societies
- Financial Systems in Asia: Where Politics Meets Development
- MNEs in Asian Business Systems
- National R&D Systems and Technology Development in Asia
- The Co-evolution of Global Sourcing of Business Support Functions and the Economic Development of Asian Emerging Economies
- Social Capital in Asia: Its Dual Nature and Function
- The Role of the State in Asian Business Systems
- A Survey of Strategic Behaviour and Firm Performance in Asia
- Pictures of the Past: Historical Influences in Contemporary Asian Business Systems
- Beyond Production: Changing Dynamics of Asian Business Groups
- Change and Continuity in East Asian Business Systems
- Asian Business Systems: Implications and Perspectives for Comparative Business Systems and Varieties of Capitalism Research
- Asian Business Systems: Implications for Managerial Practice
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article provides an overview of the institutional structure of the business system of Taiwan. It explores the role of the state, financial system, ownership and corporate governance, the internal structure of the firm (management), employment relations, education and skills formation, inter-company relations (networks), and social capital. It highlights key ingredients inherent in Taiwan’s business system and outlines the historical contours of its transformation. Although the business system has undergone drastic change in the past two decades, the current state of its various dimensions still bears the historical mark and lasting consequences of a resilient traditional legacy. This article contributes directly to the business systems and varieties of capitalism literatures and identifies institutional contingencies for comparative and international social science research in general.
Keywords: Taiwan, Asia, business systems, varieties of capitalism, institutions
Zong-Rong Lee is Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Institute of Sociology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao is Distinguished Research Fellow and Director of the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- [UNTITLED]
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- China: Authoritarian Capitalism
- Hong Kong: Hybrid Capitalism as Catalyst
- India: From Failed Developmental State Towards Hybrid Market Capitalism
- Indonesia: Oligarchic Capitalism
- Japan: Coordinated Capitalism Between Institutional Change and Structural Inertia
- Laos: Frontier Capitalism
- Malaysia: Personal Capitalism
- The Philippines: Inequality–Trapped Capitalism
- Singapore: Open State-Led Capitalism
- South Korea: Plutocratic State-Led Capitalism Reconfiguring
- Taiwan: Sme-Oriented Capitalism in Transition
- Thailand: Post-Developmentalist Capitalism
- Vietnam: Post-State Capitalism
- Business Groups in Asia: An Institutional Perspective
- Corporate Governance and Business Systems in Asia
- Culture and the Business Systems of Asia
- Employment Relations and Human Resource Management in Asia: Explaining Patterns in Asian Societies
- Financial Systems in Asia: Where Politics Meets Development
- MNEs in Asian Business Systems
- National R&D Systems and Technology Development in Asia
- The Co-evolution of Global Sourcing of Business Support Functions and the Economic Development of Asian Emerging Economies
- Social Capital in Asia: Its Dual Nature and Function
- The Role of the State in Asian Business Systems
- A Survey of Strategic Behaviour and Firm Performance in Asia
- Pictures of the Past: Historical Influences in Contemporary Asian Business Systems
- Beyond Production: Changing Dynamics of Asian Business Groups
- Change and Continuity in East Asian Business Systems
- Asian Business Systems: Implications and Perspectives for Comparative Business Systems and Varieties of Capitalism Research
- Asian Business Systems: Implications for Managerial Practice
- Index
