Disappearing Distances

This article was written by Robert Green and published by the Taiwan Review on September 1, 2005. It is a review of the recently published book "Global Taiwan: Building Competitive Strengths in a New International Economy", which was edited by Suzanne Berger and Richard K. Lester and published by M.E. Sharpe. Quoted from Green:

"In Global Taiwan: Building Competitive Strengths in a New International Economy, a group of scholars from the Industrial Performance Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…[look] at Taiwan's economic growth and its role in the global economy. This study follows two earlier books on the effects of globalization on advanced industrial economies, Made in America (1989) and Made by Hong Kong (1997). Believing that macro-level analyses failed to explain many of the characteristics and complexities of globalization's impact on different local economies, the authors interviewed business leaders and policy-makers in Taiwan in an attempt to develop 'a set of explanations from the ground level up to account for the strategic choices of firms operating in a global economy'."