The main theme of the dissertation comes takes a case study of cable industry in Taiwan from political economics to interpret the articulation between the global and local social relations. There are both external ad internal factors that are the dynamics causing the cable industry change. ''External factors'' refer to the pressures from international politics and international trade based on the advantage of techniques and markets, forces the state to draft new laws and create an environment for the flowing foreign capital to settle down. ''Internal factors'' refer to the growth of specific mode of production based on local learning on the position of division of international labor in the context of Taiwan economic and political development, cable TV market expends.
From technique, state and capital three dimensions, the dissertation deals with the issues in glocaliztion. First, it shows that the technique evolution in cable television industry. In Taiwan, the technique development in cable television fellows the development of global media technique. From the mode of development, I see the historical process of technique evolution in cable television based on the conjunction of the change on position in the international division of labor. And from the mode of production, I find the specific social condition to support the cable TV production.
Second, state plays an important role between global and local relations. State neither intensifies nor weakens its power in globaliztion period. In stead, state makes a sense when and how to play different roles to deal with both the crisis of legitimation and capital accumulation. It also uses the licensed institution to lead the direction of skills and capital. Meanwhile, state also negotiates with different interest groups, finishes the law that admits previous illegal cable television managers to survive temporarily. The active role of state in Taiwan restructures the power distribution in central and local government responsing to the dynamics of global and local.
Finally, the focus is on how the different kinds of capital flows, transfers and unites with each other, both in channels and systems markets. In the cable television develop process, independent channels and systems oriented from local politics and economics are increasing to give way to the enterprises which are integrated from small local capitals and connected with global capital. But the process of market concentration in Taiwan cable industry based on the locality shows an aspect of glocalization.