Economy and Society: East Asian Development
(IDAS: Industrial Development in East Asia)
Graduate Institute of Development Studies, NCCU
International Doctoral Program on Asian Studies, NCCU
Instructor: Jenn hwan Wang, Chair Professor
Date and time: Tuesday 2:10pm- 5:00 pm
Room:750213
Course Description:
This course intends to introduce the students the major issues in economic sociology,
and extend the discussions to the experiences of East Asian societies. Different from
neo-classical economics which regards individuals as rational actors, sociology views
individual actors as social products whose behaviors are deeply embedded in social
relations. It is in this context that sociology treats market as a product of social
construction, which involves power and social relations. Thus, each society has its own
institutional arrangements that shape people’s economic behavior and determine the
society’s economic performance.
This course will especially focus on the following issues. They are: the formation
market, the roles of entrepreneurship, network, form of business, types of innovation, and
the state’s role in the economy. Along with these theoretical issues, we will use the
examples of East Asian development to further discuss the above issues.
In the East Asian part, we will be focused on the development of Taiwan, South
Korea and China, and its repercussion on the development of current capitalism. These
East Asian countries have experienced rapid and dramatic economic transformation in
recent decades. Their transformations have been studied by many excellent academic and
policy researchers. This course will introduce students the most recent debates and works
on the above development (i.e. economy and society) issues.
Requirements:
1, Participation: The assignments contain two parts: first, students have to submit a
summary report on every week’s reading materials to the NCCU E-Learning Website one
day before the class; the other is to bring the questions regarding the assigned reading
materials to the class to facilitate discussion. The class assistant will show to the students
how to do it in the first day of the class.
2, Facilitation: This will require one of the students in the class to do the summary in
each session of the three-hour class and to guide colleague students in understanding the
assigned readings. This assignment (and who will do which week/s) will be discussed in
the first week’s class.
3, Research paper: Students are required to submit a research paper up to 8000 words.
Research topic (including a short abstract) should be submitted to me before the mid-term
exam week.
Grading:
Participation: 30% ; Facilitation: 20%; Research paper: 50%
Class schedule：
1
week
date
TOPICS
1
9/13
Introduction
2
9/20
Defining the Discipline
Nee, Victor, 2005. “The new institutionalisms in Economics and
Sociology.” in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by
Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press. Pp. 49-74.
Nelson, Richard, “Evolutionary theorizing about economic change” in
The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and
Richard Swedberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Pp.
58-136
3
9/27
Networks and Embeddedness
Granovetter, M. 1985. "Economic action and social structure - the
Problem of Embeddedness." American Journal of Sociology
91(3):481-510.
Smith-Doerr, Laurel and Water Power, 2005.
“Networks and
economic life.’ Pp. 379-401. in The Handbook of Economic
Sociology, edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Burt, Ronald. 2004. "From Structural holes: the social structure of
competition." Pp. 325-48 in The New Economic Sociology, edited
by Frank Dobbin. Princeton University Press.
4
10/04
Markets
Fligstein, Neil, and Luke Dauter. 2007. The Sociology of Markets.
Annual Review of Sociology 33: 105-28.
Beckert, Jens. 2009. The social order of markets. Theory and Society 38:
245-269.
Biggart, Nicole Woolsey, and Thomas D. Beamish. 2003. The Economic
Sociology of Conventions: Habit, Custom, Practice, and Routine
in Market Order. Annual Review of Sociology 29: 443-464.
5
10/11
Market formation
Velthuis, Olav. 2003. Symbolic meanings of prices: Constructing the
value of contemporary art in Amsterdam and New York galleries.
Theory and Society 32: 181-215.
Morgan, Glenn. 2008. Market formation and governance in international
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financial markets: The case of OTC derivatives¹. Human Relations
61 (5): 637-660.
Granovetter, Mark, and Patrick McGuire. 1998. "The Making of an
Industry: Electricity in The United States." In The Law of Markets
ed. Michel Callon. Oxford: Blackwell. 147-173.
6
10/18
Entrepreneurship
Thornton, Patricia. 1999. "The sociology of entrepreneurship." Annual
Review of Sociology 25:19-46.
Granovetter, Mark. 1995. "The economic sociology of firms and
entrepreneurs." Pp. 128-65 in The Economic Sociology of
Immigration:
Essays
in
Networks,
Ethnicity,
and
Entrepreneurship, edited by Alejandro Portes. Russell Sage
Foundation.
Aldrich, Howard. 2005. "Entrepreneurship." Pp. 451-477 in The
Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition., edited by Neil
Smelser, and Richard Swedberg. Princeton University Press.
10/25
Global commodity chain and global production networks
Gereffi, G. (1999). International trade and industrial upgrading in the
apparel commodity chain. Journal of International Economics, 48,
37-70.
Humphrey, J., & H. Schmitz. (2002). How does insertion in global value
chains affect upgrading industrial clusters? Regional Studies, 36,
1017-1027.
Ernst, D., and L. Kim. 2002. Global production networks, knowledge
diffusion, and local capability formation. Research Policy 31
(8-9):1417-1429.
8
11/01
9
11/08
The state and industrial development
Evans, P. (1995) Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial
Transformation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Pp.1-99.
The state and innovation
Breznitz, D. (2007). Innovation and the State: Political Choice and
Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland. New
Heaven: Yale University Press. “Introduction part”, Ch.1,2,4.
10
11/15
7
Midterm week
Due of paper abstract
3
11
11/22
General review of East Asian and Historical Experience
Chang, Ha-Joon. 2002, Kicking Away the Ladder: Development
Strategy in Historical Perspective, London: Anthem Press, 1-109.
12
11/29
General review of East Asian and Historical Experience
Chang, Ha-Joon. 2002, Kicking Away the Ladder: Development
Strategy in Historical Perspective, London: Anthem Press, 110- 142.
Chang, Ha-Joon. 2006, The East Asian development experience :
the miracle, the crisis and the future, London : Zed books. Chapter
1(13-52); Chapter 3 (109-134).
13
12/06
Korea
Chu, Y.-w. (2009). “Eclipse or reconfigured? South Korea's
developmental state and challenges of the global knowledge
economy.” Economy and Society, 38(2), 278-303.
Tsui-Auch, L. S., & Lee, Y.-J. (2003). “The state matters: management
models of Singaporean Chinese and Korean business groups.”
Organization Studies, 24(4), 507-534.
Wong, J. (2004). From learning to creating: biotechnology and the
postindustrial developmental state in Korea. Journal of East Asian
Studies(4), 491-517.
14
12/13
Taiwan
Dodgson, Mark, John Mathews, Tim Kastelle, and Mei-Chih Hu. 2008.
The evolving nature of Taiwan's national innovation system: The
case of biotechnology innovation networks. Research Policy 37
(3): 430-445.
Chung, C.-N. (2004). “Institutional Transition and Cultural Inheritance:
Network Ownership and Corporate Control of Business Groups in
Taiwan, 1970s-1990s.” International Sociology, 19, 25-50.
Wang, Jenn hwan, Chen, Jun Ming, Chen Chong yuan, 2011, Fast
follower’s innovation and Organizational Structure of Taiwanese
IT Industry, Paper presented at Annual Conference of Association
for Asian Studies, Hawaii, 31, March- 4, April. U.S.A.
15
12/20
China’s catch up development and innovation
Liu, W., & Dicken, P. (2006). “Transnational Corporations and
'Obligated Embeddedness': Foreign Direct Investment in China's
Automobile Industry.” Environment and Planning A 38(7),
1229-1247.
Altenburg, T., & Schmitz, H. (2008). “Breakthrough? China' s and
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India's Transition from Production to Innovation.” World
Development, 36(2), 325–344.
Zhou, Y. (2008) Synchronizing Export Orientation with Import
Substitution: Creating Competitive Indigenous High-Tech
Companies in China. World Development, 36, pp. 2353-2370.
16
12/27
China Rising- Chinese firms in Global context
Francis Schortgen,
A Contextual View of Chinese Enterprise
Internationalization 15-45.
Gloria L. Ge and Daniel Z. Ding,The Effects of the Institutional
Environment on the Internationalization of Chinese Firms, 46-68
May Hongmei Gao, Natural Resources: Government Support for
Chinese Companies’ Global Hunt, 233-252
In
Ilan Alon, Julian Chang, Marc Fetscherin, Christoph Lattemann and
John R. McIntyre, eds, 2009, China Rules: Globalization and
Political Transformation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Palgrave
Connect.
Palgrave
Macmillan.
26
Aug
2011
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/97802302
74181
17
01/03
China’s rapid socioeconomic transformation
Growing social unrest in China : rising social discontents and popular
protests / Chih-Jou Jay Chen
An institutional analysis of China's failed healthcare reform / Yanzhong
Huang
Granting or refusing the right to petition : the dilemma of China's
xinfang system / Keyuan Zou
Would democratization help remedy China's corruption problem? :
comparative insights on China and India / Yan Sun
In
Socialist China, capitalist China : social tension and political
adaptation under economic globalization / edited by Guoguang
Wu and Helen Lansdowne London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
18
01/10
Final week
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