The Reconstructing of Industrial Relations in Taiwan’s High Technology Industries

Scholars have shown interest in labour capacity when discussing labour movements in Taiwan’s industrial relations since the nation’s democratic transition from 1987. Interestingly, the upturn in workers’ struggles skipped the Hsinchu Science Industrial Park, which concentrated its business on the non-unionised, high-technology sector. Existing studies have not sufficiently explained how the Hsinchu Science Industrial Park escaped the series of labour conflicts after 1987. Rather than focusing on labour capacity, this article employs an alternative perspective – the role of employers and management strategies – to examine how employers brought together segments of capital and labour through a diversity of human resource management strategies. These management strategies have two aspects. First, high-tech industrial managers took advantage of “Taiwan-style” employee profit sharing and stock ownership to strengthen firms’ top tier of strategic decision-making with the support of national institutions. Second, while human resource management strategies will often differ from country to country, Taiwan’s management strategies draw from the experiences of Silicon Valley. Rather than fragmenting workers into teams and ethnic networks as in Silicon Valley, Taiwan’s managers established individual labour and management relations to avoid collective labour conflict.     

Women who shared a husband: Polygyny in southern Albania in the early 20th century

In Europe little attention has been paid to polygyny, though it occurred in the Balkans in the recent past. Data from an Austro-Hungarian census of two-thirds of Albania taken in 1918 give a rare opportunity to examine it. As elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean, the extent of polygyny was modest, but it was more widespread in rural areas than in towns. This article looks at polygyny in Mallakastër, one area of southern Albania. While not specifically provided for by customary law, polygyny was accommodated within it. Marriages were contracted in the same way as monogamous marriages, and both co-wives lived as part of the family. There is no direct evidence of the reasons why some marriages were polygynous. It may have been a response to childlessness in some cases, but this was neither a universal justification nor a universal explanation. It was probably also a means by which families augmented their labor supply in the absence of an institution of servants. A law enforcing monogamy in 1929 and changes that made polygyny less acceptable and less necessary have resulted in its disappearance.     

The effects of convergence: internationalization and the changing distribution of net value added in large German firms

The paper examines whether and how the increasing internationalization of firms impacts on the operation of a co-ordinated market economy. Following the tenets of agency theory, it assumes that an emerging market for corporate control changes the monitoring mechanisms that oversee management. Since Anglo-American forms of monitoring are usually associated with a higher return for investors compared with Continental European firms, a change in the distribution of the net value added of firms is expected. Using financial data on fifty-nine large German companies, the paper shows that the emerging convergence of German corporate governance practices to Anglo-American standards has had a weak, but significant, impact on the distribution of net value added. This is in contrast to the impact of the internationalization of firms on product markets, which does not have an effect. Since the market for corporate control is, however, still underdeveloped in Germany, the main effects remain to be seen.     

我国区域产业转移的模式比较与战略选择

区域产业转移作为国际产业转移在一国国内的延伸,已经成为区域经济活动中的一种常态现象。我国在长期的区域产业转移实践中,形成了多种区域产业转移模式,通过对这些模式的共同点和不同点的比较,立足促进我国区域经济协调发展的进程,区域产业转移模式设计必须适应"区域地位平等、产业要素互补、政府市场分工明确、产业园区健全、产业发展可持续"的理念原则,同时要选择实施创新、后发优势、选优、结构优化、共赢等战略,充分发挥区域产业转移在推动我国区域经济协调发展中的积极效应。     

曼德勒华人的语言生活

缅甸曼德勒华人占该市人口的十分之一,语言格局多样,单语缅语、单语云南话都很常见,另外还有普通话、闽粤客话、傣语等.本文通过考察场所与使用者,描述了曼德勒华人的语言现状与竞争,预测了变化趋势,以此观照世界华人的语言生活,对其变更给予社会语言学与语言本体学的解释.     

提高竞争实力,迎接新形势的挑战

面对“入世”带来的巨大挑战,中小企业面临的形势相当严峻。针对中小企业存在的问题,提出了“企业三个努力,政府三大支持”的建议。     

我国产业结构战略性调整的必要性和对策

我国已经进入必须经过结构调整才能促进经济发展的阶段。产业结构调整是今后一个时期的主线。产业结构战略性调整是应对产业全球化和加入WTO的挑战的重大战略。实现产业结构合理化和高度化是产业结构战略性调整的基本目标。产业结构战略性调整的基本目标的实现,必须选择有效的可行的政策。     

刍议企业反竞争情报的工作内容及其法律保障

企业反竞争情报是指阻止或妨碍竞争对手获得本企业情报的信息研究。企业反竞争情报的工作内容主要表现在增强保密观念,强化保密意识;整章建制,规范信息工作;正确利用商业秘密和专利权,保护新技术发明;以合同的形式约束内部职工和第三方的行为。企业反竞争情报工作在规章制度、信息产权、契约关系、市场秩序以及司法救济五个层面已形成一套完整的法律保障体系。     

国际竞争法对我国的影响及对策

随着国际经济一体化进程的加快和贸易自由化的进一步发展 ,WTO各个成员都面临着货物贸易和服务贸易逐步自由化的挑战 ,如何在WTO法律体系的规则内 ,开放和保护国内市场就成为WTO各个成员关注问题 ,因此 ,在现有的机制下 ,国际贸易中又出现了新的贸易壁垒 ,各国的反垄断法就是其中的法律壁垒。在这种形势下 ,中国应当如何应对 ,成为当前一个迫切的问题。     

知识产权法与竞争法

知识产权法有促进竞争的一面,但与竞争又不可避免地存在内在冲突。竞争法对知识产权具有“抑”与“扬”的双重功效,既能有效地保护知识产权,又对知识产权领域中的不正当竞争行为加以规制。在协调知识产权法与竞争法的关系时,竞争法应对行使知识产权的正当行为予以豁免,对不正当行为予以约束。