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Export-oriented industrialization has transformed the Korean
economy so profoundly that it has become known as the "Miracle on
the Han." Yet, this industrial model has become fragile, as Korea's
chaebols are being challenged by Chinese competitors. Attempts to
seek out new engines of economic growth have failed, or remain
underdeveloped, while a looming demographic crisis threatens to
exacerbate Korea's problems. This book outlines a blueprint for
overcoming these challenges, moving beyond the business strategies,
government policies, and socio-cultural patterns established under
export-oriented industrialization. Written by a stellar line-up of
international contributors, its central proposition is that social
change is needed to support the strategic and operational
transformation of the chaebol and SMEs. Specifically, it stresses
the need for an appreciation of the gender, national, and ethnic
diversity emerging within the Korean workplace today. If properly
leveraged, such diversity has the potential to reduce the
groupthink that hampers the creativity and responsiveness of Korean
firms today, as well as facilitating greater success in overseas
markets. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book will be
useful to students and scholars in Korean Studies, as well as those
studying business, economics, and sociology more broadly in East
Asia.
Export-oriented industrialization has transformed the Korean
economy so profoundly that it has become known as the "Miracle on
the Han." Yet, this industrial model has become fragile, as Korea's
chaebols are being challenged by Chinese competitors. Attempts to
seek out new engines of economic growth have failed, or remain
underdeveloped, while a looming demographic crisis threatens to
exacerbate Korea's problems. This book outlines a blueprint for
overcoming these challenges, moving beyond the business strategies,
government policies, and socio-cultural patterns established under
export-oriented industrialization. Written by a stellar line-up of
international contributors, its central proposition is that social
change is needed to support the strategic and operational
transformation of the chaebol and SMEs. Specifically, it stresses
the need for an appreciation of the gender, national, and ethnic
diversity emerging within the Korean workplace today. If properly
leveraged, such diversity has the potential to reduce the
groupthink that hampers the creativity and responsiveness of Korean
firms today, as well as facilitating greater success in overseas
markets. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book will be
useful to students and scholars in Korean Studies, as well as those
studying business, economics, and sociology more broadly in East
Asia.
Global Talent seeks to examine the utility of skilled foreigners
beyond their human capital value by focusing on their social
capital potential, especially their role as transnational bridges
between host and home countries. Gi-Wook Shin and Joon Nak Choi
build on an emerging stream of research that conceptualizes global
labor mobility as a positive-sum game in which countries and
businesses benefit from building ties across geographic space,
rather than the zero-sum game implied by the "global war for
talent" and "brain drain" metaphors. The book empirically
demonstrates its thesis by examination of the case of Korea: a
state archetypical of those that have been embracing economic
globalization while facing a demographic crisis-and one where the
dominant narrative on the recruitment of skilled foreigners is
largely negative. It reveals the unique benefits that foreign
students and professionals can provide to Korea, by enhancing
Korean firms' competitiveness in the global marketplace and by
generating new jobs for Korean citizens rather than taking them
away. As this research and its key findings are relevant to other
advanced societies that seek to utilize skilled foreigners for
economic development, the arguments made in this book offer
insights that extend well beyond the Korean experience.
Global Talent seeks to examine the utility of skilled foreigners
beyond their human capital value by focusing on their social
capital potential, especially their role as transnational bridges
between host and home countries. Gi-Wook Shin and Joon Nak Choi
build on an emerging stream of research that conceptualizes global
labor mobility as a positive-sum game in which countries and
businesses benefit from building ties across geographic space,
rather than the zero-sum game implied by the "global war for
talent" and "brain drain" metaphors. The book empirically
demonstrates its thesis by examination of the case of Korea: a
state archetypical of those that have been embracing economic
globalization while facing a demographic crisis-and one where the
dominant narrative on the recruitment of skilled foreigners is
largely negative. It reveals the unique benefits that foreign
students and professionals can provide to Korea, by enhancing
Korean firms' competitiveness in the global marketplace and by
generating new jobs for Korean citizens rather than taking them
away. As this research and its key findings are relevant to other
advanced societies that seek to utilize skilled foreigners for
economic development, the arguments made in this book offer
insights that extend well beyond the Korean experience.
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