作者在1990年代臺灣工業部門的電子業與農業部門的蝴蝶蘭產業分別的經驗研究基礎上，由全球化的理論角度討論化們所表現全球經濟的共同邏輯，即，跨界的生產網絡，它也顯示了臺灣經濟的結構與動力。一方面，這是新經濟歷史性地全球浮現的一部份，藉著資訊技術革命的滲透性、普遍性與過程取向的特性，形成一種有強制性的巨大力量。網絡化（networking）是結構經濟與社會的關鍵過程。然而另一方面，臺灣近年的政治結構與動力，民（國）族國家的重構，這是過了時的政治意識形態的再現，在國際地緣政治所支配的脈綹下引起了亞太區域的政治不確定性，即，跨界的政治（trans-border politics）。這兩者之間有結構性的衝突。作者指出，面對跨世紀的變局，這是國家的轉型與經濟的巨變，也是全球化過程中臺灣社會的挑戰。

　　　　　Based on the empirical research on electronic industry and Phalaenopsis (Butterfly Orchid) industry in Taiwan, the author deals with the shared logic of global economy in terms of globalization, that is, trans-border production networks. It also expresses the structure and dynamics of Taiwan's economy. On the one hand, this is a part of globally and historically emergence of the new economy, which is the imperative power through his pervasiveness, universality, and process-oriented character of the information technology revolution. The networking is the critical process to structure economy and society. On the other hand, the political structure and dynamics, the reconstitution of the nation state, represent an obsolete political ideology and create political uncertainty in Asian Pacific Region, which has been dominated by the international geopolitics, that is, trans-border politics. There are structural conflicts. Facing the changing millennium, the author points out the transformations of the state and economy are the challenges of Taiwan's society in globalization.