This qualitative inquiry project investigates the political and policy discourses related to education reform in Taiwan. Specifically, it examines the science education reform policies and policy leaders’ vision for the reform. This work also reveals the unique challenges involved in implementing contemporary science education approaches in a Confucian learning culture. Data sources included re...

The research suggests that Chinese companies do not subscribe to ‘western’ strategy theory. As they rapidly internationalise through massive Foreign Direct Investment, Chinese companies are developing new perspectives on achieving competitiveness. A comparison of the Resource-Based View of strategy (RBV) constructs from western literature with identified (indigent) Chinese business strategies f...

The paper discusses culture, business culture and the influence of cultural values on managerial practice in general, and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) practice in particular. We argue that western ICT systems are based on optimization, underpinned by the positivism paradigm embedded in the western goal-seeking problem solving model. Eastern, in particular Chinese, ways of thi...

This study explores the implicit cognitive structure of role norms in Taiwan. Subjects were asked to make direct pair-wise similarity judgments of 28 role relationships in terms of the way the actor role should treat the object role (e.g., father to son vs. son to father). INDSCAL and cluster analyses were used to delineate the implicit cognitive structure underlying the similarity judgments. I...

Abstract This chapter seeks to reinterpret the Neo-Confucian concept of emotions (情 jeong / qing ) as a core political notion what might be called Confucian democracy within traditionally context South Korea. Grounded in tradition Korean li-ki metaphysics and envisaged kind critically affectionate solidarity that holds together diverse groups people, this interpretation attempts lay basis for i...

Abstract: How to view the reform of Catholic Church in sixteenth century and its relationship with virtue as an important issue studying humanist philosophy. Humanists emphasize that education is foundation for cultivating personality believe restoring virtues church “cure” ills early modern church. Consilium de emendanda ecclesia (1537) humanists’ practice virtue. This reflected proposals stre...

A Buddhist theory of information comports with the recent notion of information ethics wherein information may be included within skillful means (upāya). Buddhists reject epistemological-ontological dualism: the conceptual and the non-conceptual are not distinct sources of knowledge. The act of cognition and the cognized object are momentary-together. Any category including information as a sub...