Research Catalog

Title

Competition and cooperation in Taiwan's information technology industry : inter-firm networks and industrial upgrading / Teresa Shuk-ching Poon.

Author

Poon, Teresa Shuk-Ching.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2002.

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Description

xxiv, 221 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Cooperative industrial research > Taiwan
• Strategic alliances (Business) > Taiwan
• Information technology > Research > Taiwan
• Business networks > Taiwan
• Computer industry > Research > Taiwan
• Competition > Taiwan
• Microelectronics industry > Taiwan
• Computer software industry > Taiwan
• Computer industry > Taiwan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-209) and index.

Contents

• 1. Context and Issues. The Changing Industrial Structure of Taiwan. Limitations of the Extant Theories in Explaining Taiwan's Industrial Development. The Global Commodity Chains Perspective. Examining the Case of the Information Technology Industry -- 2. The Global Information Technology Industry. The Scope. Current International Development Trends. A Global Commodity Chain Analysis -- 3. Development of the Information Technology Industry in Taiwan. The Stages of Development. Current Profile. The Position Along the Global IT Commodity Chain. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats -- 4. Inter-firm Networks in Taiwan. The Concept of Inter-firm Networks. Established Forms of Inter-firm Networks. Contributions to Industrial Development in the Labor-Intensive Phase of Industrialization. Structural Limitations of the Contributions to Industrial Upgrading. Newer Forms of Inter-firm Networks -- 5. Acer's Global Logistics Network: Strengthening Market Capabilities as OBM.
• Description of the Firm. Background: Why Acer Formed a Logistics Network. The ODL Arrangements in Acer's Logistics Network: The Fast-Food Business Model. The Structure of Operations: The Client-Server Organizational Structure. The Dynamics of Operations: Reworking the Form of Production. From ODL to OBM: The Global Brand, Local Touch Approach. The Outcome: Positive Results and Emergent Problems. A New Version of the Client-Server Organizational Structure: The Internet Organization. Structuring the Restructuring the Internet Organization: Over-Diversification and Consolidation -- 6. Taiwan New PC Consortium: Pushing Toward Developing Critical Components and Formulating Industry Standards. Reasons for the Formation of the TNPC. Member Firms. The Structure and Process of Operation. The Three Phases of Development. The Outcome -- 7. Inter-firm Networks and Industrial Upgrading in Taiwan: The Present and the Future. Inter-firm Networks and the Upgrading of the IT Industry in Taiwan.
• The IT Industry in Taiwan: Competing and Cooperating in the Future. Application of the Global Commodity Chains Perspective to the Study of Industrial Upgrading.

ISBN

1567204376 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001041800

OCLC

• ocm47182324
• SCSB-4248701

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries