Abstract
This article examines the nature of corporate interlocks among a select sample of the business elite in contemporary Taiwan. The work specifically focuses on a group of Taiwanese entrepreneurial families who entered the world of commerce and industry during the Japanese colonial period, then after the Second World War continued, transformed and expanded their enterprises, and became today the island's business leaders. The present research is part of a planned larger project, the aim of which is to understand the social organization and power structure of the capitalist class in modern Taiwan and to reconstruct its historical development since the colonial era. This article, therefore, constitutes a preliminary study toward these long-range goals. Taiwan's unprecedented economic growth in the past three decades has attracted considerable attention among social scientists. I But, apart from a few studies on individual characteristics of entrepreneurs (Eberhard, 1962; Mark, 1982) and on the internal structure of Chinese firms (Silin, 1976; Wong, 1985), little research has been done on owner-managers of large corporations in Taiwan or other Chinese societies. Especially
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