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Papers by Jinn-yuh Hsu

Barnes/The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography, 2012

The large variety of firms in what has clearly become a closely interconnected, globalizing econo... more The large variety of firms in what has clearly become a closely interconnected, globalizing economic system is an object of fascination: from household workshops to multinationals, vertically disintegrated firms to vertically integrated companies, and global subcontractors ...

The Review of International Affairs, 2004

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2009

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 2004

The high-technology industrial system in Taiwan is noted by its decentralisation and geographical... more The high-technology industrial system in Taiwan is noted by its decentralisation and geographical agglomeration. It demonstrates varieties of features of industrial district: spin-offs, collaborations, networking, and most importantly, institutional presences. At the initial stage, Taiwan's Government did lead in the technology transfer, rendered new firms formation and pushed the private sector hard to bring the industry into being. However, as the industry became global, new redundant and complementary institutions, including dense social and professional connections and associations, joined the monotonic role of the state to make network learning in the decentralised industrial system effective. It represented a developmental paradox: if the developmental state is argued to be a top-down bureaucratic rationality based governance mechanism, how could it build up and articulate with the supposedly bottom-up trust-based social networks? How could the potential tension between the top-down and the bottom-up be settled? The research will explore the process of institutional embeddedness, de-embeddedness, and re-embeddedness in Taiwan's high-technology region, and provide a lesson for the late-industrialising countries in the globalisation era.

Regional Studies, Apr 2009

High-technology parks have been instrumental for propelling regional development and acclaimed ... more High-technology parks have been instrumental for propelling
regional development and acclaimed as the panacea for curing regional decline since industrial restructuring after the 1980s in
Taiwan. This paper aims to explore the divergent dynamics of different technology park projects in Taiwan as well as their
impacts on local development. Inspired by the global production networks (GPNs) perspective, a triangular framework is
proposed – the interaction between state intervention, economic competence, and societal forces – to highlight and explain the geographically varied patterns of ‘strategic coupling’ between the global production networks and local institutional
embeddedness that shape the divergent patterns of regional development in Taiwan.

Political Geography, 2009

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography, Feb 6, 2012

Section II Spatialities (b) Regulation and Governance 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 The Virtual Economy Ma... more Section II Spatialities (b) Regulation and Governance 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 The Virtual Economy Matthew Zook Economic Geographies of Global Governance: Rules, Rationalities, and “Relational Comparisons” Katharine N. Rankin The Geographies of Alter-globalization Joel Wainwright Reinventing the State: Neoliberalism, State Transformation, and Economic Governance Danny MacKinnon New Subjects Wendy Larner Renaturing the Economy Morgan Robertson Bringing Politics Back In: Reading the Firm-Territory Nexus Politically Jinn-yuh Hsu 298 313 330 344 358 372 ...

Journal of Economic Geography, 2006

This paper examines the geography of technological learning and knowledge acquisition among Taiwa... more This paper examines the geography of technological learning and knowledge acquisition among Taiwanese and Korean firms. Specifically it focuses on the knowledge sourcing experience of Asian manufacturing latecomers in the United States (US). The Asian latecomer model of learning is characterized by a triangular spatial division of knowledge sourcing and technological production that involves the transfer and circulation of knowledge across multiple spatial scales. At the regional level, Korean and Taiwanese firms rely on local learning systems in the form of science parks to create favorable domestic agglomeration economies that are conducive for knowledge accretion. At the trans-regional level, non-core R&D and the manufacturing of technology-driven products are geographically concentrated in China. Lastly, local and trans-regional learning are supplemented by international sourcing of knowledge through the location and investment of R&D facilities in the US. To the extent that extra-local knowledge sourcing in the US is associated with the acquisition of new knowledge forms, such a multiscalar spatial strategy is expected to help transform Asian learners from technology latecomer to technology newcomer status.

Journal of Economic Geography, 2014

International Planning Studies, 2011

... Positive implications of the transformation, including revitalizing the local economy, facili... more ... Positive implications of the transformation, including revitalizing the local economy, facilitating ... community development policy also helped government to promote rural industrialization. ... Green Democracy: A Study on Taiwan's Environmental Movement , Taipei: Socio Publishing. ...

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2011

This article deals with the transformation of the state and the change in industrial and regional... more This article deals with the transformation of the state and the change in industrial and regional development policy that took place in Taiwan in the context of a globalizing economy. Taiwan's authoritarian Kuomintang regime was able to concentrate resources on developing strategic industries in key regions, notably Hsinchu, and rendered rural industrialization possible by extending the global production network to central Taiwan. Dramatic change occurred when external economic pressure and domestic political struggle challenged the arbitrary power of the state after the mid-1980s. To keep business rooted at home, the state led the industries to upgrade by offering preferential subsidies, at the same time forbidding the outflow of key industries to China. This policy was not entirely successful. When the populist Democratic Progressive Party came to power, it reinforced the policy by launching new science parks to both compensate business groups for losses due to the detention policy, and balance regional disparity for electoral gain. The major industrial and regional competitiveness measures that resulted reduced resource allocation to a pork barrel, while Hsinchu's competitive advantage in cross-border regional integration was gradually lost as a collective order came to govern the process. The article ends with some reflections on the post-developmental state and the interplay of populist politics, the liberalized economy, and the new regionalism.

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2010

Abstract In this paper, I aim to explain the puzzle of why economic integration leads to politica... more Abstract In this paper, I aim to explain the puzzle of why economic integration leads to political separation in a cross‐Strait exchange. Being a political economist heavily influenced by Marxist tenets, I argue two things here. First, the base structure, or the ...