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The Prospects of Employee Participation in State-Owned Enterprises: Lessons from the Case of Chunghwa Telecom Company in Taiwan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Chen-Yen Ku
Chen-Yen Ku*
Affiliation:
School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide
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Abstract

One of the major factors in building a successful system of employee participation is the involvement of unions and government. In this article, the limitations of system of employee participation in Taiwan are examined. The article begins with a brief overview of Taiwanese industrial relations. It then focuses on the development of Employee Participation in Taiwan, before exploring the impacts of privatisation on the state-owned enterprises in Taiwan, with reference to Chunghwa Telecom Company.

Type
Symposium on Alternative Ways of Organising: Asian Labour’s Response to the ‘New’ Globalisation
Information
The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , June 2003 , pp. 21 - 31
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2003

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