Jenn‐hwan Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenn‐hwan Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenn‐hwan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Chengchi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3048-8951 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Green Energy Transition and Peripheral City Development in China: Towards a Local Eco‐developmental State
The green energy transition is recognized for its inherent environmental contributions. This article illustrates how it can also reshape the economic landscape and create the conditions for a peripheral city to develop. Drawing on the politics of accelerating low‐carbon transition and focusing on the role that local governments play in this process, the authors illustrate how the green energy transition has commercialized wind and solar resources…
The Paradox of Small Hydropower: Local Government and Environmental Governance in China
Small Hydropower is regarded by the Chinese state as a method for both poverty alleviation and environmental protection in rural areas. This paper finds that local government officials develop an ‘environmentally bundled economic interests’ approach that simultaneously fulfills the central state’s new political mission and local economic development demand. The small hydropower plants however have paradoxically become the destroyer of the environ…
Local States, Institutional Changes and Innovation Systems: Beijing and Shanghai compared
The purpose of this paper is to look into the transformation of local innovation systems in the high-tech parks of Shanghai and Beijing and their technological learning and upgrading. The areas that we have chosen to investigate are Beijing's Zhongguancun and Shanghai's Yangpu District. The main reason that we selected these two areas for study is because they are home to most of the top universities and R&D institutes in these two cities. Our ma…
In Search of an Innovative State: The Development of the Biopharmaceutical Industry in Taiwan, South Korea and China
Recent developments in the biopharmaceutical industry in Taiwan, South Korea and China bear witness to the transformation of these states in nurturing an innovation-based industry. This article argues that the segmentation of the value chain of the biopharmaceutical industry has provided industrializing countries with a window of opportunity. These East Asian states have modified their former catching-up approaches by establishing a more effectiv…
Bringing the State Back In, but Differently
Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland, by Dan Breznitz, New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2007, xviii + 262 pp., US$45.0
National Model of Technological Catching Up and Innovation: Comparing Patents of Taiwan and South Korea
This paper discusses different patterns of innovation and their institutional roots in Taiwan and South Korea. By using USPTO patent data as indicators of innovation, this paper finds that while individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) still account for a significant proportion of the patents in Taiwan, the large conglomerates are the major contributors of patents in South Korea. Moreover, although electronics is the sector that …
Contesting Taipei as a world city
This paper aims to analyze the contesting process in building Taipei as the world city in Taiwan’s current democratic transition period. Special attention is paid to the dwindling status of Taipei as the world city due to the North‐South political divide in the national politics in which the ruling party supports its politically based city in the south as contesting with Taipei in the north where the opposition party has been dominant. We argue t…
From technological catch-up to innovation-based economic growth: South Korea and Taiwan compared
This paper sets out to analyse the divergent models pursued by South Korea and Taiwan in regard to technological catching-up and their ongoing transition towards innovation-based economies. It is found that South Korea's former high-debt and chaebol-dominated model inclined it to pursue a Schumpeterian scale-based technological development, while Taiwan's former pro-stability, small- and medium-sized-enterprise (SME)-based model tended to favour …
Global Production Networks and Local Institution Building: The Development of the Information-Technology Industry in Suzhou, China
We discuss how global production networks interact with local institutions to shape the ways in which economic development occurs within a region; the region concerned being the Suzhou municipality in China. We argue that the development of Suzhou's information-technology industry has largely resulted from (1) the transformation of global production networks in the 1990s, in which Taiwanese firms played an important role; (2) the local states' ac…
China's dualist model on technological catching up: A comparative perspective
The central question of this paper is whether China can go beyond simple technological transfer and toward innovation in this age of globalization. By adopting an institutionalist perspective, this paper argues that China has developed a dualist model during its economic transitional period in which the foreign sector has been isolated from domestic firms, while the domestic industrial sectors have also failed to develop organic linkages among th…
World city formation, geopolitics and local political process: Taipei's ambiguous development
This article argues that the existing literature on world city formation overlooks geopolitics and political struggles in accounting for a city's transformation. Using Taipei as a case study, the article shows that geo-economics, geopolitics and local politics each played an important role in Taipei's ambiguous world city formation in the late 1990s and are expected to continue to do so in the not too promising future. It is argued that the globa…
Contesting Flexibility: The Restructuring of Taiwan's Labor Relations and Spatial Organization
This article analyzes the transformation of labor relations in Taiwan. Employing a regulation approach to decipher the patterns of labor relations prevalent before the 1980s and the existing patterns characteristic of the 1990s, I argue that the former stage was a flexible Taylorist labor regime. This labor regime was coupled with an export-oriented economy where the flexible use of labor was necessary to keep wages at low levels and to respond q…
In the Shadow of China: Political Developments in Taiwan since 1949. Steve Tsang
Global Production Networks and Local Institution Building: The Development of the Information-Technology Industry in Suzhou, China
We discuss how global production networks interact with local institutions to shape the ways in which economic development occurs within a region; the region concerned being the Suzhou municipality in China. We argue that the development of Suzhou's information-technology industry has largely resulted from (1) the transformation of global production networks in the 1990s, in which Taiwanese firms played an important role; (2) the local states' ac…
World city formation, geopolitics and local political process: Taipei's ambiguous development
This article argues that the existing literature on world city formation overlooks geopolitics and political struggles in accounting for a city's transformation. Using Taipei as a case study, the article shows that geo-economics, geopolitics and local politics each played an important role in Taipei's ambiguous world city formation in the late 1990s and are expected to continue to do so in the not too promising future. It is argued that the globa…
China's dualist model on technological catching up: A comparative perspective
The central question of this paper is whether China can go beyond simple technological transfer and toward innovation in this age of globalization. By adopting an institutionalist perspective, this paper argues that China has developed a dualist model during its economic transitional period in which the foreign sector has been isolated from domestic firms, while the domestic industrial sectors have also failed to develop organic linkages among th…
In Search of an Innovative State: The Development of the Biopharmaceutical Industry in Taiwan, South Korea and China
Recent developments in the biopharmaceutical industry in Taiwan, South Korea and China bear witness to the transformation of these states in nurturing an innovation-based industry. This article argues that the segmentation of the value chain of the biopharmaceutical industry has provided industrializing countries with a window of opportunity. These East Asian states have modified their former catching-up approaches by establishing a more effectiv…
The Green Energy Transition and Peripheral City Development in China: Towards a Local Eco‐developmental State
The green energy transition is recognized for its inherent environmental contributions. This article illustrates how it can also reshape the economic landscape and create the conditions for a peripheral city to develop. Drawing on the politics of accelerating low‐carbon transition and focusing on the role that local governments play in this process, the authors illustrate how the green energy transition has commercialized wind and solar resources…
Local States, Institutional Changes and Innovation Systems: Beijing and Shanghai compared
The purpose of this paper is to look into the transformation of local innovation systems in the high-tech parks of Shanghai and Beijing and their technological learning and upgrading. The areas that we have chosen to investigate are Beijing's Zhongguancun and Shanghai's Yangpu District. The main reason that we selected these two areas for study is because they are home to most of the top universities and R&D institutes in these two cities. Our ma…
Contesting Flexibility: The Restructuring of Taiwan's Labor Relations and Spatial Organization
This article analyzes the transformation of labor relations in Taiwan. Employing a regulation approach to decipher the patterns of labor relations prevalent before the 1980s and the existing patterns characteristic of the 1990s, I argue that the former stage was a flexible Taylorist labor regime. This labor regime was coupled with an export-oriented economy where the flexible use of labor was necessary to keep wages at low levels and to respond q…
In the Shadow of China: Political Developments in Taiwan since 1949. Steve Tsang
Contesting Flexibility: The Restructuring of Taiwan's Labor Relations and Spatial Organization
This article analyzes the transformation of labor relations in Taiwan. Employing a regulation approach to decipher the patterns of labor relations prevalent before the 1980s and the existing patterns characteristic of the 1990s, I argue that the former stage was a flexible Taylorist labor regime. This labor regime was coupled with an export-oriented economy where the flexible use of labor was necessary to keep wages at low levels and to respond q…
World city formation, geopolitics and local political process: Taipei's ambiguous development
This article argues that the existing literature on world city formation overlooks geopolitics and political struggles in accounting for a city's transformation. Using Taipei as a case study, the article shows that geo-economics, geopolitics and local politics each played an important role in Taipei's ambiguous world city formation in the late 1990s and are expected to continue to do so in the not too promising future. It is argued that the globa…
China's dualist model on technological catching up: A comparative perspective
The central question of this paper is whether China can go beyond simple technological transfer and toward innovation in this age of globalization. By adopting an institutionalist perspective, this paper argues that China has developed a dualist model during its economic transitional period in which the foreign sector has been isolated from domestic firms, while the domestic industrial sectors have also failed to develop organic linkages among th…
From technological catch-up to innovation-based economic growth: South Korea and Taiwan compared
This paper sets out to analyse the divergent models pursued by South Korea and Taiwan in regard to technological catching-up and their ongoing transition towards innovation-based economies. It is found that South Korea's former high-debt and chaebol-dominated model inclined it to pursue a Schumpeterian scale-based technological development, while Taiwan's former pro-stability, small- and medium-sized-enterprise (SME)-based model tended to favour …
Global Production Networks and Local Institution Building: The Development of the Information-Technology Industry in Suzhou, China
We discuss how global production networks interact with local institutions to shape the ways in which economic development occurs within a region; the region concerned being the Suzhou municipality in China. We argue that the development of Suzhou's information-technology industry has largely resulted from (1) the transformation of global production networks in the 1990s, in which Taiwanese firms played an important role; (2) the local states' ac…
Contesting Taipei as a world city
This paper aims to analyze the contesting process in building Taipei as the world city in Taiwan’s current democratic transition period. Special attention is paid to the dwindling status of Taipei as the world city due to the North‐South political divide in the national politics in which the ruling party supports its politically based city in the south as contesting with Taipei in the north where the opposition party has been dominant. We argue t…
National Model of Technological Catching Up and Innovation: Comparing Patents of Taiwan and South Korea
This paper discusses different patterns of innovation and their institutional roots in Taiwan and South Korea. By using USPTO patent data as indicators of innovation, this paper finds that while individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) still account for a significant proportion of the patents in Taiwan, the large conglomerates are the major contributors of patents in South Korea. Moreover, although electronics is the sector that …
Bringing the State Back In, but Differently
Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland, by Dan Breznitz, New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2007, xviii + 262 pp., US$45.0
Local States, Institutional Changes and Innovation Systems: Beijing and Shanghai compared
The purpose of this paper is to look into the transformation of local innovation systems in the high-tech parks of Shanghai and Beijing and their technological learning and upgrading. The areas that we have chosen to investigate are Beijing's Zhongguancun and Shanghai's Yangpu District. The main reason that we selected these two areas for study is because they are home to most of the top universities and R&D institutes in these two cities. Our ma…
In Search of an Innovative State: The Development of the Biopharmaceutical Industry in Taiwan, South Korea and China
Recent developments in the biopharmaceutical industry in Taiwan, South Korea and China bear witness to the transformation of these states in nurturing an innovation-based industry. This article argues that the segmentation of the value chain of the biopharmaceutical industry has provided industrializing countries with a window of opportunity. These East Asian states have modified their former catching-up approaches by establishing a more effectiv…
The Paradox of Small Hydropower: Local Government and Environmental Governance in China
Small Hydropower is regarded by the Chinese state as a method for both poverty alleviation and environmental protection in rural areas. This paper finds that local government officials develop an ‘environmentally bundled economic interests’ approach that simultaneously fulfills the central state’s new political mission and local economic development demand. The small hydropower plants however have paradoxically become the destroyer of the environ…
The Green Energy Transition and Peripheral City Development in China: Towards a Local Eco‐developmental State
The green energy transition is recognized for its inherent environmental contributions. This article illustrates how it can also reshape the economic landscape and create the conditions for a peripheral city to develop. Drawing on the politics of accelerating low‐carbon transition and focusing on the role that local governments play in this process, the authors illustrate how the green energy transition has commercialized wind and solar resources…
Economics (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · China (7 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Economic system (7 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (6 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (6 works) · Politics (6 works)