In the rapid improvement of network communication, some phenomena are been changing and multi working style is one of them. This study focus on ¡uTeleworkig¡vthat is one of the new working style. The concept of global village has been made under the process of globalization. Furthermore, the relationship between Taiwan and China becomes closer and how to manage the employees more flexible, using telework for Taiwanese corporations might be a good time now. How to select the suitable person as teleworker is what this study wants to discuss. The samples were from the social networking of author of this study via internet to collect the questionnaire. These samples did not limit in industry¡Bbusiness style or position and there were 105 valid questionnaires collected. Via the data of collected questionnaires to analysis what kind of industry¡Bbusiness style and position are suitable for teleworking and try to find the relationship between teleworking and job performance. The discussion of this study is how to select the suitable person as teleworker and also has good job performance then to discuss the possibility of promoting the teleworking. This study used three relative constructs of personality such as job autonomy¡Bgeneral cognitive ability and job motivation to discuss the influence with teleworking and job performance. This study was discovered job autonomy and job motivation are positive influence to job performance, but not general cognitive ability. Meanwhile, there was no obvious relationship between teleworking and job performance. For corporations, people who have higher job autonomy and job motivation are the basic requirement to recruit the employees. It would succeed to run teleworking easily if the employees have these two personalities.

The thesis uses the case study of software industry development to investigate the role of the state, relationship with the private sectors, and its transformation. Besides, This paper adopts Peter Evans¡¦ ¡§embedded autonomy¡¨ and Linda Weiss¡¦s ¡§governed interdependence theory¡¨ to explain these situations. As far as Taiwan, the state helped develop software industry after 1980s. At that time, there was no software programming or service company in Taiwan. Like the other strategy industry, the state set up the pilot agency, III, to support software industry, but the state didn¡¦t intervene in production. The unique character of software industrial development has been its synchronized globalization among developed and developing world. To out-compete among others in software industry is quite a gap for Taiwan. Besides, Taiwan¡¦s labor cost is higher then India and Mainland China. So, Taiwan has no chance to get the low-level business. In the analysis, the state¡¦s e-government budget didn¡¦t benefit to software industry. The state have no obvious network with society, have no control force to software private sectors, and the state¡¦s capacity was be doubted. So the state only just plays a ¡§husbandry¡¨ ideal-type.

Research on the Strategies That Can Improve the Financial Autonomy of Kaohsiung County Abstract Local autonomy is the foundation of democracy, and finance is the basis of government administration. Before local autonomy can be put into practice, a local government must have the legal right to finance. In order to improve the autonomy of local finance, the central government has enacted ¡§General Guideline for Local Taxation¡¨ and ¡§Law on Imposed Fees,¡¨ and the revised draft of the Financial Separation of Revenues and Expenditures Law was submitted to the Legislature for review and discussion. In other words, in the future, the central government will guarantee the basic financial needs of local governments, but local governments must resort to themselves to respond to their respective development and needs in other aspects. This will pose very harsh challenges and burdens to any local government. This is especially true when the financial sources for administrative districts are usually not sufficient. So how to improve the financial autonomy of local governments will be a major topic we will have to deal with. Literature review, analysis of secondary data, and in-depth interviews were conducted to collect financial statistics of government agencies, pertinent to the financial conditions of Kaohsiung County. Interviews of financial chiefs were also conducted to analyze and investigate issues on the system dimension and on the practical dimension. It was found that the central and the local government must work closely before the financial problems of Kaohsiung County can be solved. The things that the central government should do include: canceling the fixed-proportions distribution of over-the-board allocated tax money, revising the calculation of basic financial revenues, canceling inappropriate measures of tax deductions, and establishing statutory subsidy systems. The local government should work to increase the sources of finance, including making good use of ¡§General Guideline for Local Taxation¡¨ and ¡§Law on Imposed Fees,¡¨ improving management of public properties, adjusting tax base of property, setting into motion public facilities, and implementing land re-divisions and sectional buy-up. With regard to saving, the local government should downsize the personnel expenditures, make good use of resources of the private sector, encourage private sector¡¦s participation in investment, and privatize public services. The implementation of local autonomy depends on sound local finances. In the wake of the present difficult public financial conditions, local governments should follow the spirit of ¡§Help oneself before others come to help¡¨ so as to elevate their responsibility and financial autonomy in the future. Only through this method can financial problems be solved effectively.

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Recently for over 20 years, the scholar who studies multinational corporation study the focus to move from MNC headquarter to MNC subsidiaries gradually, make the research about subsidiary's management increase gradually. And the autonomy is a subject that is worth studying among them, for MNCs, the subsidiary¡¦s autonomy is more and more important. Supports MNC headquarter and carries out the global strategies are subsidiary¡¦s mission. But with the difference of the control system of MNC, with the difference of the fierce change degree of environment, will cause the difference of subsidiary¡¦s autonomy. Try to find out the factor influencing autonomy from Taiwan and mainland subsidiary in this research. This research studies with four factors to find out which variable affect the extent of subsidiary¡¦s autonomy: First, how the subsidiary manager¡¦s traits influence on MNC subsidiary¡¦s autonomy; Second, how the MNC headquarters¡¦ traits influence on MNC subsidiary¡¦s autonomy; Third, how the environmental traits influence on MNC subsidiary¡¦s autonomy; Fourth, how the MNC subsidiary¡¦s traits influence on MNC subsidiary¡¦s autonomy. This research takes the measure of case study by interview. The case company sets up subsidiaries in Taiwan and mainland, and for the high-order executive of the interview case company. Originally discover the headquarter exerts a tremendous influence, nearly determine the extent of subsidiary¡¦s autonomy. And subsidiary manager's great ambition is also an important influence factor. In addition, discover that subsidiary's autonomy is dynamic equilibrium, result of compromise, and subsidiary¡¦s autonomy changes like a cycle.

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The Determinants of MNC Subsidiary¡¦s Autonomy and Initiative An Empirical Study of MNC Subsidiary in Taiwan Abstract The research focus of MNC subsidiary has been transferred from HQ perspective to transnational network perspective. Under network perspective, MNC subsidiary¡¦s role and function have been widely recognized. Some subsidiaries do not play a receptive role dictated from HQ, but leap to an international player or product mandate. Through fifty years economic development, the MNC Taiwan subsidiary¡¦s role has been changed. Therefore, it is worthy to study the MNC Taiwan subsidiary¡¦s behavior. This thesis focuses on the determinants of subsidiary¡¦s autonomy and initiative. We define the subsidiary autonomy as the level to which the HQ delegate and the subsidiary initiative as the result of subsidiary¡¦s autonomous innovation. The subsidiary autonomy demonstrates the subsidiary¡¦s ability to operate independently. The subsidiary initiative exhibits the subsidiary can contribute to the whole MNC. This research utilizes the HQ¡Xsubsidiary dyadic relationship characteristics, the level to which subsidiary¡¦s dependence on MNC, the subsidiary¡¦s resource and subsidiary¡¦s network characteristics as the explanatory variables to examine the effects on subsidiary¡¦s autonomy and initiative. The rationales of the hypotheses include procedure justice theory, resource dependence perspective, resource based view and MNC network perspective. This research uses survey to collect data. The population is the list of foreign enterprises in Taiwan published by Dun and Bradstreet, 2000. The subsidiaries belong to manufacturing industry and non-financial service industry. The subsidiaries are owned by foreign MNC. Its scale is above 30 people and its operation time must exceed one year. We use cluster analysis to formulate the subsidiary role, and use multi-regression and ANCOVA analysis to examine the effects of independent variables on subsidiary¡¦s autonomy and initiative. After analyzing 67 MNC¡¦s Taiwan subsidiaries, the results reveal that HQ¡¦s procedure justice, subsidiary¡¦s integration with MNC, the subsidiary¡¦s local responsiveness and subsidiary¡¦s relative capability have influence on subsidiary autonomy. In addation, HQ¡¦s procedure justice, subsidiary¡¦s dependence of knowledge resource on MNC, subsidiary¡¦s ownership structure, subsidiary¡¦s entrepreneurship level, subsidiary¡¦s relative capability, subsidiary¡¦s local responsiveness and subsidiary autonomy can affect the subsidiary initiative. These results assert that the subsidiary¡¦s role is highly influenced by its position in MNC network. Therefore this finding coincides with MNC network perspective. However, while examining the subsidiary¡¦s behavior, we still can¡¦t neglect the effects of HQ-subsidiary dyadic relationship and subsidiary¡¦s intrinsic characteristic, its resource. Therefore, these dissertation results respond to Birkinshaw¡¦s perspective. The subsidiary behavior is simultaneously influenced by HQ, subsidiary and local environment. Moreover, these research findings also correspond to the three subsidiary research stream, including HQ-subsidiary relationship, subsidiary role and subsidiary evolution. Finally, by conducting this research in Taiwan, this results also reply the researchers¡¦ attention on the MNC subsidiaries in the developing countries.

Thesis (Ph.D..) -- University of Canberra, 2006. / Includes bibliography (p.283 - 300)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 183-186). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2000. / Restricted until November 2001. "September, 2000." Bibliography: leaves 156-177.