| Summary: | 碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 經營管理碩士在職專班 === 94 === There’s an unavoidable trend the industries turn to other countries for cheaper production cost under the fierce global competition. China, with a population of 1.3 billion people, has been considered the largest market, the world production site by the world. For the market and cost concern, It is the common choice among most of the industries.
China phenomenon, it’s not merely a Chinese miracle but also a global issue. Among the great population, there are still 0.8 billion of people living a traditional country life. Thus it’s multi-dimensional and complex to study China issue. Scholars all over the world try hard to understand if the economic development differs across the strait with different political and economic systems and social cultures and values. Nowadays, industries’ behavior of pursuing profits has overthrown China’s traditional economic system and brings great impact on people’s thinking. Problems of adaptation and change in behavior and thinking reveal the importance and the complexity of political and economic interaction across the strait.
Industry pursues profits and effect. Cultures concerns values and permanent meanings. However, they don’t contradict each other. In fact the elements constructing industries have everything to do with cultures. The core of this study is people. People are the influencers of systems, politics, structures, and cultures. This study compares several influential managers across the strait to understand how social cultures and values impact leadership and thus impact economic activities.
In this paper, 40 managers from each country across the strait are quantified, and qualitative in-depth interviews with 12 top managers are conducted to understand the similarity and difference of social values across the strait. This study finds that the leadership style of managers across the strait can be concluded, according to Herseyand Blanchard’s theory, that China mangers are high task oriented and low relationship oriented, Taiwan managers are high task and relationship oriented. Besides, the data generated from the in-depth interview in this paper can be a help to the managers across the strait with their business operation and empirical administration skills.
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