Cross-Strait Local Governance of Business-Recruitment: A Comparison of Taoyuan and Suzhou
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Tai, Kuang-Ting
Abstract
In the era of globalization and decentralization, local governments recruit businesses as an administrative measure to increase local revenues and develop the local economy. Business recruitment is also a way to maintain economic competitiveness and a solution to financial difficulties. Local governments on both sides of the strait have been gaining control and capabilities over business recruitment in the local economy through the institutionalization of relevant laws and regulations. The different institutional backgrounds and actual implementation of these laws, however, have generated distinct forms of governance. Contrary to expectations, prevailing studies on local economic development and business recruitment focus mainly on the cost-benefit analysis on policies and institutional studies, but non of them adopt the networking approach, which is essential to painting a complete picture of the local governments’ efforts to induce investment. Therefore, this paper builds on the concept of local governance and analyzes the interactions between the government, the enterprises and citizens during the process of business recruitment. The first objective is to observe the formulation and function of the governance network. The second objective is to determine the effectiveness of the network structure by examining individual cases and to offer relevant policy consultations by ways of comparison.
Taoyuan County and Suzhou City are paradigm cases for local business recruitment on their side of the strait. In terms of central-local government relations, industry structure and economic development, they have a strong basis for comparison and are selected for case studies in this thesis for this very reason. The case studies are focused on the institutional background, administrative operaions and governance structure. Research on institutional background is concentrated on local revenues and the rights over business recruitment. Administrative operations include the application for investment and administrative aid, land acquisition, environmental evaluation and feedback mechanisms, and it also includes social feedback by enterprises to further understand the appreciative system in local business recruitment. Business recruitment structure is based on aforementioned institutional background and describes the power resources of each actor in their respective positions in the governance network. The governance network structure is then analyzed for its characteristics and effects.
Subjects
local governance
local business-recruiting
local economic development
Type
thesis
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