—to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate … Kong and Taiwan), Korea and Singapore are complemented with comparisons to trends in national policy and private sector … practice in Japan and the United States. Preliminary findings indicate that while progress has been made towards establishing …

This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong … privately financed welfare programmes; (ii) Korea and Taiwan's public welfare expenditures will grow significantly in the coming … welfare, which will put an extra burden on her welfare state; (iv) Japan and Korea's enterprises are challenged in their chief …

capabilities, and their influence on market performance, among leading TFT-LCD producers in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. The empirical … results suggest that TFT-LCD producers in Korea and Taiwan built innovation capabilities by creating complementary knowledge …