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    Ethics and taxation : a cross-national comparison of UK and Turkish firms

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    This paper investigates responses to tax related ethical issues facing busines

    An evolutionary stage model of outsourcing and competence destruction : a Triad comparison of the consumer electronics industry

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    Outsourcing has gained much prominence in managerial practice and academic discussions in the last two decades or so. Yet, we still do not understand the full implications of outsourcing strategy for corporate performance. Traditionally outsourcing across borders is explained as a cost-cutting exercise, but more recently the core competency argument states that outsourcing also leads to an increased focus, thereby improving effectiveness. However, no general explanation has so far been provided for how outsourcing could lead to deterioration in a firm‟s competence base. We longitudinally analyze three cases of major consumer electronics manufacturers, Emerson Radio from the U.S., Japan‟s Sony and Philips from the Netherlands to understand the dynamic process related to their sourcing strategies. We develop an evolutionary stage model that relates outsourcing to competence development inside the firm and shows that a vicious cycle may emerge. Thus it is appropriate to look not only at how outsourcing is influenced by an organization‟s current set of competences, but also how it alters that set over time. The four stages of the model are offshore sourcing, phasing out, increasing dependence on foreign suppliers, and finally industry exit or outsourcing reduction. The evolutionary stage model helps managers understand for which activities and under which conditions outsourcing across borders is not a viable option. Results suggest that each of these firms had faced a loss of manufacturing competitiveness in its home country, to which it responded by offshoring and then outsourcing production. When a loss of competences occurred, some outsourcing decisions were reversed

    Political Connections and Business Strategy: The Impact of Types and Destinations of Political Ties on Business Diversification in Closed and Open Political Economic

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    This paper studies how different types and destinations of connections between business leaders and political actors create strategic benefits in closed and open political economic systems. The analysis examines how political ties facilitate diversification by business groups in Taiwan between 1986 and 1998, before and after the country underwent extensive political and economic liberalization that led to changes in diffusion of power, tie accountability, and public scrutiny. We show that formal position interlocks with the dominant party or senior government officials provide the greatest strategic benefits in a closed political economic system, while informal social ties to a wider range of political actors provide greater strategic benefits when a political economic system becomes more open.

    e-Government Acceptance Model During Covid-19 Crisis in Tainan City, Taiwan

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    This research examines the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in implementing e-Government during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan. Furthermore, it builds government network infrastructure and develop Internet applications. Internet penetration as the first stage of this development began in 1998 and the second stage intends to promote the different services. The third phase simplifies information services to make them more proactive and accessible to the general population. In the fourth phase, e-government uses more Web 2.0 social networks to offer innovative services that actively address public needs. Finally, the fifth phase is projected to transform Taiwan into a smart nation with people-friendly services, an open, transparent, intelligent government, and evidence-based successful policies. The data were collected through a questionnaire survey on Tainan City’s users of E-Government services. Furthermore, structural model analysis was performed using smartPLS 3.0., while TAM measured the use of e-government. The results showed that the influential factors are perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and information quality. The system’s quality has no significant effect on the use of e-government in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic in Tainan City. Keywords: E-Government, Technology Acceptance Model, COVID-19    Abstrak Penelitian ini mengkaji Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) pada implementasi E-Government pada masa krisis covid-19 di Taiwan. Tahapan pengembangan e-government di Taiwan dimulai pada tahun 1998, yang menunjukkan tahap pertama yaitu penetrasi internet. E-government dimaksudkan untuk membangun infrastruktur jaringan pemerintah dan mengembangkan aplikasi internet: tahap kedua adalah tujuan e-government untuk mempromosikan layanan internet pemerintah. Kemudian fase ketiga, e-government, dimaksudkan untuk menyederhanakan layanan informasi menjadi proaktif dan mudah diakses oleh publik. Fase keempat, e-government menggunakan lebih banyak jejaring sosial Web 2.0 untuk menawarkan layanan inovatif yang lebih aktif memenuhi kebutuhan publik. Terakhir, e-government fase kelima diharapkan menjadi Taiwan yang cerdas, memberikan layanan yang nyaman bagi masyarakat, menerapkan pemerintahan yang terbuka, transparan, dan cerdas, serta mengoptimalkan kebijakan efektif berbasis bukti. Data untuk penelitian ini dikumpulkan melalui survei kuesioner pada masyarakat Kota Tainan yang telah menggunakan layanan E-Government. Analisis model struktural dilakukan dengan menggunakan smartPLS 3.0. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan e-government di Kota Tainan dapat diukur dengan menggunakan Theory Acceptance Model. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi penggunaan e-government di Kota Tainan adalah persepsi kemudahan penggunaan, persepsi manfaat, dan kualitas informasi. Sementara itu, kualitas sistem tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap penggunaan e-government di era pandemi COVID-19 di Kota Tainan. Kata Kunci: E-Government, Model Penerimaan Teknologi, COVID-1

    The Structure of Intra-Group Ties: Innovation in Taiwanese Business Groups

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    Business groups are a network form of multi-business firm that play central economic and technological roles in many emerging economies. We draw from the technology studies literature, complemented by concepts from studies of organizational networks, to investigate how equity, director, and operating ties between firms within groups shape their innovation opportunities. Technology studies suggest that such ties create both opportunities and constraints that influence innovative activity by affiliates and, in aggregate, by a group as a whole - opportunities that arise from access to information, people, money, and other resources, but also constraints that arise from entrenched relationships among different actors. The network literature, in turn, suggests that centrality and density of ties between firms within a group will shape the benefits and constraints. We find that the overall density and individual centrality of the three types of ties affects affiliate and group innovativeness among about 2,000 firms within 263 business groups in Taiwan between 1982 and 2000. Groups that offer affiliates focused access to financial resources and operating knowledge, coupled with autonomy from intra-group competition and strategic interference, often generate fertile opportunities for innovative activity by some of their members. The results also offer implications for multi-business firm innovativeness.

    Geographic clustering and network evolution of innovative activities: Evidence from China’s patents

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    This study examines the spatial distribution and social structure of processes of learning and knowledge creation within the context of the inventor network connecting Chinese patent teams. Results uncover mixed tendencies toward both geographic co-location and dispersion arising from combined processes of intra-cluster learning and extra-cluster networking. These processes unfold within a social network that becomes less fragmented over time: as a giant component emerges and increases in size, social distances among inventors become longer. The interplay between geographic and network proximity is assessed against China’s institutional environment. Implications of the findings are discussed for regional development and policy-making.clusters; knowledge transfer; social networks; patenting

    Strengths And Weaknesses Of The New Public Management (NPM)- Cross-Sectional And Longitudinal Analysis

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    The paradigm of NPM, like its forerunners, has been trying to answer the same question for almost twenty years: how to implement policies, strategies, programs and projects, using the market-type mechanisms, so that the institutions of the state could achieve the desired results. The praises and criticism that have accompanied this paradigm along its evolution are fully justified. Indeed, the NPM has strengths and weaknesses as well, and one purpose of this paper is to identify them and to find answers to the following questions. Which components of the mechanism named NPM generate negative results? Why? What can be done? It is not easy to answer these questions, taking into consideration the multitude of factors influencing the public management, and especially the tremendous impacts of the accelerated process of globalization. The global problems of nowadays make any unilateral action of a government unconceivable, and this brings us to the concept of global public management (GPM). Nevertheless, the way forward will be the subject of another paper. The paper is structured in two main sections, as follows: The first section provides a conceptual framework, examining the multifaceted structure of the NPM and its mechanisms (the “state-of-the-art” of the “art of the state”). The second section suggests a theoretical framework on “measuring” the aggregate attribute of the NPM – the QoG – illustrated by practical cases, in a twofold perspective: longitudinal (variation in time) and cross-sectional (variation among countries).New Public Management, Global Public Management, Governance, New Institutional Economics, Bertelsmann Transformation Index, Corruption Perceptions Index, e-Government Index, Global Competitiveness Index, Human Development Index, Index of Freedom in the World, Transition Indicators, Worldwide Governance Indicators

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    Global institutions and local filtering: Introducing independent directors to Taiwanese corporate boards

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    Drawing on the idea of selective interaction between organizations and environments, the authors examine how organizations change their traditional practices when they are exposed to new institutional environments. In the context of corporate governance change in response to financial market globalization, they argue that global institutional influence is moderated by local corporate control contexts that function as filtering mechanisms. The authors empirically analyse the adoption of a new corporate governance practice, i.e., the initial introduction of independent directors, in Taiwanese public firms, where family governance has been a dominant governance model. The findings suggest that while firms exposed to US capital markets are more likely to adopt independent directors, this facilitating effect weakens when the firms are under strong family control and is amplified when they are unbound from local frameworks through the key leader???s education or their geographic context
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