In recent years under the trend of globalization, how a locality with its cultural and institutional vantages managed to articulate global economies as a node of ¡¥global city¡¦ is considerably concerned in the academic studies. With the framework of global city, this study aims to examine the transformation of role and space to the Taiwan animation industry. This study examines the historical development of the Taiwan animation industry to map out the trajectories of local strength, technological evolution, and the policies led by the government. The examination also shows that the dynamics of the animation industry has put Taiwan as a spatial mediator of global cities by the spatial clustering. In the new technological paradigm and the marketing strength, this study argues that the Taiwan animation industry transforms organization structure and accelerates itself to move to the metropolitan node of global cities. The transformations pilot the appearance of flexible workers, and the dominant firms that master decisive technologies have risen in these kinds of circumstances. However, the Taiwan animation firms those moved abroad do not shrank the industry, instead of using the production network to benefit comparative technologies and talents to distribute the systematized assignments over the global production network in the nodes of latecoming places, i.e. China and South-East Asia. And the Taiwan ¡¥node¡¦ tries to connect the pre-production network of American, European and Japan to reach the opportunities of co-production by strategic alliance, sharing mutual technologies, and global presence of the domestic and international film festivals. Via these networked multi-geometries to articulate the global economies as a node of global cities, the metropolitan region of Taipei permeates into the global production networks and improves the adaptability of the hierarchy of the global city.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0710107-172445 |
| Date | 10 July 2007 |
| Creators | Chen, Jiun-yin |
| Contributors | Pei-Chun Shao, Wen-Cheng Wang, Ming-rea Kao |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0710107-172445 |
| Rights | off_campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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