2023, Vol.30, No.2

Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.61

pISSN : 1225-8539 / eISSN : 2671-5171
https://journal.kci.go.kr/japs

Based on the analysis of the advance of the state and its influence on the private sector, the article claims the following arguments. There occurred a controversy on guojin mintui (the advance of the state and the retreat of the private sector) due to the capacity building of the state-owned enterprise(SOE) through the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the Tieben incident, and the Lang-Gu debate. The controversy on guojin mintui further intensified after the Global Financial Crisis due to the government’s stimulus program, the SOE’s acquisition of competitive private firms, the government-led restructuring of the industry, and the expansion of SOEs into the competitive sector. The Xi Jinping administration’s decision to strengthen the capacity of the SOEs had a significant impact on the private sector due to its preferential treatment toward the SOEs. In addition, the Mixed-ownership reform during the Xi Jinping era allowed state-owned capital to expand its influence in private companies. And the case of the government guidance fund also implied that the state could strengthen its influence over the private sector through investment means.

The main purpose of this study is to empirically analyze the causal relationship between transactional and transformational leadership of Korean managers from large Korean companies and the organizational commitment of Chinese employees working for the local subsidiaries. Furthermore, this study aims to explore the mediating effect of organizational culture between these two variables. To this end, we attempted to find the sample companies that were co-identified both in the list of Korean companies operating in China identified by ‘KOTRA’ in 2021 and in the list of top 200 companies in Korea based on sales selected by ‘CEO Score’, and conducted a survey on local employees working for the Chinese subsidiaries to verify the hypotheses. The empirical analysis results exhibit that transactional and transformational leadership had positive impact on the organizational commitment, and that, in particular, the impact of transformational leadership was more prominent than the other. In addition, it was verified that the development culture and group culture had significant mediating roles between the leadership and the organizational commitment. Through these empirical results, it can be inferred that the local employees in China value the company’s working environment and future vision higher than a raise in salary. Based on these findings, this paper suggests that the Korean companies operating in China should exert appropriate leadership aiming for an organizational change and have an in-depth understanding of local culture in order to manage workforces effectively.

This paper examines the UK’s cyber security strategy and identifies the determinants of strategy by looking at the strategic orientation that is commonly associated with the country’s response to the Huawei crisis and data security issue. Using the discussions of role theory and intelligence cycle theory, the paper traces how the decision-maker’s threat perceptions and role conception, along with the risk assessments of the intelligence agency, have acted as major factors in determining the country’s response to cyber security. It is argued that the British government’s threat perception towards China, its role conception, and the GCHQ’s cyber security risk assessments have determined the strategic orientation of the country’s cyber security strategy, seeking out a leadership role in building international cyber security cooperation based on a democratic alliance. Based on its analysis, the paper aims to demonstrate two things. First, the national cyber security strategy is not only influenced by exogenous and structural factors but also endogenous and ideological factors, and second, the nature and direction of cyber security strategy can be clearly understood only when the common strategic orientation associated with issue-specific responses is analysed in advance.