South Korean development centred on large enterprises, and mostly on giant business conglomerates called chaebol. The study deals with objective conditions for "chaebolization", business diversification through subsidiaries and personal connections between government and business. It notes that...

The paper focuses on laoban or "bosses" who own and manage small and medium-scale enterprises and examine their attitudes and behavioural patterns. It also attempts to explore the structural features of the Taiwan society that underlay and sustained the entrepreneurial activities by laoban, and...

The author compares the autocratic political regimes which carried out the industrialization of Taiwan and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in the post-war period and also compares their respective democratization processes. He shows that the controlling regime in Taiwan was more pre-emptive...

The electronics industry is the largest manufacturing sector and also forms the largest export industry in both the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Taiwan. However, the industry's development process and present makeup differ greatly in the two economies. The author shows that in its initial...

Within the existing research dealing with the economic development of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Taiwan, there is a broad consensus that the backbone of industrialization in South Korea has been the chaebols (conglomerate business groups) rather than small and medium-sized...

According to the author, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Taiwan are often considered to be similar based on their high growth performance and current income levels. However, their growth structure may not be the same. In order to detect the differences in their growth structure, he...

The extremely rare type of high level, sustained postwar economic growth experienced by the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Taiwan has drawn the attention of many scholars interested in economic development. The authors of this paper suggest that there were different mechanisms by which the...