Enabling Human Values in Foreign Policy: The Transformation of Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy

Yang, Alan Hao; Chiang, Jeremy H. C.

doi:10.1177/0971685819826707

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“…That is, equipped with their daily experiences and practices, they set an example of making the state accountable for its indifference to gender bias and its indifference towards human rights violations. Although publicised as exercising 'warm power' to advance 'human values' (Yang and Chiang 2019), the NSP's 'people-centred' aspiration is criticised for being vague and difficult to measure in terms of efficacy (Chen 2020). From the bottom up, the activists' advocacy for migrant workers further discredited the image as a 'human rights defender' carefully constructed by the Taiwanese state (Cheng and Momesso 2017).…”

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Motherhood, empowerment and contestation: the act of citizenship of vietnamese immigrant activists in the realm of the new southbound policy

Cheng

2021

Citizenship Studies

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This paper focuses on how immigrant activists interact with the host state in socio-political spheres where they exercise their citizenship. Located in Taiwan's New Southbound Policy (NSP), this paper adopts the concept of 'act of citizenship' to analyse Vietnamese activists' interactions with the NSP. This paper finds that the NSP appropriated immigrant women's motherhood and family relationships in order to boost tourism and facilitate Southeast Asian language acquisition in the short term and to enhance Taiwan's relationship with Southeast Asia in the long run. In response, immigrant activists utilised the NSP to build their own capacity and to realise their acts of empowerment, compassion and contestation in the family and public domains. They not only improved individuals' wellbeing but also made the Taiwanese state accountable for gender bias and inequality. These findings offer a much needed gender perspective into immigrant activists' dialectical relationship with the migration state of Taiwan.

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Motherhood, empowerment and contestation: the act of citizenship of vietnamese immigrant activists in the realm of the new southbound policy

Cheng

2021

Citizenship Studies

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“…For the present study, Taiwan and Vietnam were chosen as the research context because under the influence of Taiwan's new southbound policy, mutual understandings between Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries – including Vietnam – are necessary (Huang, 2018; Nguyen et al ., 2020). In addition, Taiwan is one of the countries that has invested most heavily in Vietnam, and there is a deepening relationship of cooperation between businesses in these two countries (Jing, 2017; Yang and Chiang, 2019; Yang and Hsiao, 2016). Furthermore, this study was conducted when Taiwan was facing an outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, whilst the epidemic situation was essentially under control in Vietnam.…”

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Work-from-home intention during the COVID-19 pandemic: a perspective integrating inclusive leadership and protection motivation theory

Tsang

Liu

Nguyen

2023

IJM

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PurposeThe present study integrates inclusive leadership and protection motivation theory to propose a new model predicting employees' intention to work from home during an emergency situation such as the COVID-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire was developed to collect data from 939 Taiwanese and Vietnamese office employees using a non-probability convenience sampling method. A total of 887 valid questionnaires were used for further analysis. The data were analysed following a two-stage structural equation modelling using SPSS 22 and AMOS 20 software. The validity and reliability of the instrument were tested and ensured.FindingsThe results revealed that inclusive leadership and factors related to protection motivation theory– including perceived severity and perceived vulnerability – have positive direct and indirect effects on employees' work-from-home intentions through the mediating role of employees' work-from-home-related attitudes. Protection motivation theory factors were found to have a stronger effect on employees' work-from-home intention than inclusive leadership. Differences in the relationship between perceived vulnerability, perceived severity and employees' intentions towards working from home were also discovered among participants from the two studied countries.Practical implicationsThe integration of inclusive leadership and protection motivation theory brings into light what will drive employees' intention to work from home during an emergency situation. The present study has several theoretical and practical implications for scholars, governments, managers and policymakers that can help them improve management policies for working from home in the future.Originality/valueBased on integrating inclusive leadership and protection motivation theory to explore employees' intention to work from home during an emergency situation, the present study demonstrated that inclusive leadership and protection motivation theory should be considered for studies on working from home in a pandemic setting.

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“…The rapid economic growth and geopolitical importance have made Southeast Asia (SEA) and India of the significant region to the global economy. Taiwan New Southbound Policy (NSP) promulgated in 2016 towards 18 countries in the Indo-Pacific region considered as the foreign policy with attempts to enhance the regional economic connectivity (Chang et al, 2017;Hsu, 2017;Huang, 2018;Lee & Sun, 2019;Yang & Chiang, 2019). Many researchers have studied on the core goals and implementation of the NSP, an interpretation emphasized on people-centered orientation.…”

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Performance Evaluation of Bilateral Economic Cooperation Between Taiwan and Partner Countries Under New Southbound Policy: Past, Present, and Future

2022

Business, Management and Economics Engineering

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Purpose – in light of the Taiwan New Southbound Policy (NSP), this paper aims to evaluate the performance of bilateral cooperation between Taiwan and its economic partner countries in order to have a better understanding of the coherence of reciprocal relations in the past, present and future. Research methodology – firstly, both individual forecasting models and combining forecasts were employed to predict the future values based on a period of thirty years (1990–2019). Secondly, the paper proposes non-convex DEA to detect non-convex characteristics of datasets where the volume of inputs and outputs were unevenly allocated in past years. Finally, a DEA window was applied to provide efficiency scores for decision-making units (DMUs) across a period of twelve years (2014–2025). Findings – the results found that the efficiency of seven out of eight DMUs will improve in the coming years. With a stable performance in both scale and efficiency, Singapore is Taiwan’s most successful economic partner, followed by Malaysia. The NSP remained as a vital foreign policy in supporting Taiwan’s bilateral trade and outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). Research limitations – more inputs and outputs are required in order to reflect the overall performance of the bilateral cooperation between two economies. Furthermore, more extended models are worth further investigation. Practical implications – the forecasting values of exports and imports can be used in analysing Taiwan economy’s trade deficits. This study provides useful inputs for managers in allocating resources of inbound and outbound values, and reacting rightfully to the uncertain future. Originality/Value – the paper not only contribute much more than previous ones by evaluating into the relationship between size of scale and efficiency of bilateral economies but also provide advices for policymakers in creating mechanisms that can facilitate the NSP’s sustainable development.

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Enabling Human Values in Foreign Policy: The Transformation of Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Motherhood, empowerment and contestation: the act of citizenship of vietnamese immigrant activists in the realm of the new southbound policy

Motherhood, empowerment and contestation: the act of citizenship of vietnamese immigrant activists in the realm of the new southbound policy

Work-from-home intention during the COVID-19 pandemic: a perspective integrating inclusive leadership and protection motivation theory

Performance Evaluation of Bilateral Economic Cooperation Between Taiwan and Partner Countries Under New Southbound Policy: Past, Present, and Future

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