1. Industrial Park Development across the Taiwan Strait.
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Chou, Tsu Lung and Lin, Yu Chun
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INDUSTRIAL districts ,INDUSTRIALIZATION ,MANUFACTURED products ,POLITICAL economic analysis ,ECONOMIC history ,INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
The growth of Taiwan's manufacturing investments in China has bred an emerging cross-border industrial park development. This paper investigates the processes involved by exploring the interactive relations between the nation-states and actors concerned. In the context of the cross-border political tensions between Taiwan and China, the roles played by the two states are extensively examined. A case study of Kunshan Science Park in Suzhou is also discussed in detail. It is concluded that the industrial park development across Taiwan Strait is socially constructed through the interactions of vertical and horizontal governance within interfirm, intrafirm and extrafirm networks, upon which the states and related political economies across the Strait have imposed particular influences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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