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5.1. IntroductionChapter 5 – Workplace belongingBoth working long hours and working overtime have long been regarded as TaiwaneseIT engineering work culture (Chang 2007; Ho 2003). Not surprisingly, my respondentHenry, a QA section manager in his early 30s who works in a Kunshan-basedTaiwanese computer manufacturing company told me that it is common practice in hiscompany to work overtime. Such work culture makes the workplace a very importantspace for Taiwanese IT workers' lives, so to understand the IT expatriates‘ everydaylives and space of belonging, it should be included in the analysis.As mentioned earlier, as Taiwanese expatriates who are the focus of this research workfor transnationally-operated Taiwanese IT firms, their workplace-based activities haveto be understood under the framework of multinational corporations (MNCs) ortransnational corporations (TNCs). According to Ghoshal and Bartlett (1991), amultinational corporation can be defined as a corporation that ‗consists of a group ofgeographically dispersed and goal-disparate organisations that include its headquartersand the different national subsidiaries‘ (pp.603). The definition makes the Taiwanese ITfirms in this research that operate in different countries fit into the categorisation ofMNC or TNC. As such, the organisational practices of Taiwanese IT MNCs may thusshape their employees‘ everyday work lives. As MNCs and TNCs are transnationaloperations in nature, they also allow employees to experience transnationality throughactivities in the workplace.The MNCs considered in management literature as intra-organisational networks (ibid)have now also been understood to be an institutional form of transnational practice(Vertovec 1999). Morgan (2001) puts forth the argument that this can often facilitate the169
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