15 results on '"Shih-Chang Hung"'
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2. Extending the LLL framework through an institution-based view: Acer as a dragon multinational
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Yung-Ching Tseng and Shih-Chang Hung
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Leverage (finance) ,Strategy and Management ,05 social sciences ,Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) ,Linkage (mechanical) ,Technological system ,Cultural system ,law.invention ,Internationalization ,law ,Political system ,Multinational corporation ,Reflexivity ,0502 economics and business ,Economics ,050211 marketing ,Business and International Management ,Economic system ,050203 business & management - Abstract
Mathews (Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23(1): 5–27, 2006) argues for the importance of latecomer firms undertaking international expansion through the three pillars of resource linkage, leverage, and learning (LLL). We argue that these pillars can be discussed in terms of an institutional framework that explains how institutions shape resource access and economic actions. Despite their lack of capabilities vis-a-vis established multinationals, latecomers are not passive observers or recipients, but can be institutional entrepreneurs who are potentially reflexive enough to leverage their institutional linkages to acquire resources and develop learning activities for innovation, transformation, and internationalization. To illustrate our idea, we study the Taiwan-based dragon multinational, Acer, from 1976 to 2014. Three institutional blocks that underlie Acer’s engagement with institutional linkage, leverage, and learning are emphasized: the cultural system built around the norms of the Chinese family business; the political system defined by the distinct pattern of state-business relations in Taiwan; and a technological system constructed by multiple global players in the computer industry.
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- 2016
3. Taiwan's pharmaceuticals: A failure of the sectoral system of innovation?
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Mei-Chih Hu and Shih-Chang Hung
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business.industry ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Business ,Business and International Management ,Marketing ,Innovation system ,Intellectual property ,Two stages ,Applied Psychology ,Industrial organization ,Pharmaceutical industry - Abstract
The study investigates Taiwan's sectoral system of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry, which has failed to achieve international competitiveness, despite strong state support. Our investigations were designed and carried out in two stages. In the first stage, we developed a statistical method to measure the institutional drivers in Taiwan's pharmaceutical industry. This finding received strong support in our second stage of analysis, which involved the use of both: (1) inductive processes (through the use of interviews) and (2) deductive (i.e., mathematical) approaches to analyze the innovation performance in Taiwan's pharmaceutical industry. In particular, we compared patenting and publication activities in Taiwan versus those of India. The results of our study demonstrate that the intellectual property regime (i.e., patents and publications) is playing a critical role in linking actors and institutions and is highly associated with the effectiveness of the innovation system in the pharmaceutical sector.
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- 2014
4. Managing TFT-LCDs under uncertainty: When crystal cycles meet business cycles
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Yu-Chuan Hsu and Shih-Chang Hung
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Domestic production ,Crystal (programming language) ,Commerce ,Economic indicator ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Industrial production ,Business cycle ,Business ,Business and International Management ,Environmental economics ,China ,Applied Psychology - Abstract
Understanding the correlation between the crystal cycle and the business cycle is important, because it can help managers to anticipate change, reduce environmental uncertainty, and formulate operational objectives. To this end, we focused on China and the U.S. in our analysis. We found that the economic indicators that were the most relevant in the characterization of China's huge and burgeoning TFT-LCD market are gross domestic production and industrial production. We complemented this finding by conducting similar analyses in the U.S. market using a more comprehensive list of economic indicators.
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- 2011
5. Technological change as chaotic process
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Shih-Chang Hung and Min-Fen Tu
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Punctuated equilibrium ,Computer science ,Technological change ,Strategy and Management ,Technological transitions ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Chaotic ,Lyapunov exponent ,General Business, Management and Accounting ,Chaos theory ,Discontinuity (linguistics) ,symbols.namesake ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,symbols ,Alternation (formal language theory) ,Business and International Management ,Mathematical economics ,media_common - Abstract
In this paper, we draw upon the concepts of chaos theory to examine technological change as a pattern of punctuated equilibrium through the alternation of continuity and discontinuity across time. We advocate the application of the chaos mathematical technique of time-varying local Lyapunov exponents to estimate the rates of change, timing of technological transitions and the continuity–discontinuity loop time periods. To illustrate our framework of ideas, we investigated and compared the development of four technologies – semiconductor, display, software, and biotechnology – from 1976 to 2005, using time series patent data. Implications for theory, method, and practice are discussed.
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- 2011
6. Social capital and creativity in R&D project teams
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Yuan-Chieh Chang, Ming-Huei Chen, and Shih-Chang Hung
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Value (ethics) ,Individual capital ,business.industry ,Strategy and Management ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Perspective (graphical) ,Sample (statistics) ,Context (language use) ,Public relations ,Creativity ,General Business, Management and Accounting ,Social relation ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Sociology ,Business and International Management ,business ,Social capital ,media_common - Abstract
The existing research contributes to our understanding about the value of social capital in a wide range of social science disciplines; however, it does not well address the role of social capital in creativity for research and development (R&D) project teams in a given context. Using a sample of 54 R&D project teams in high-technology firms of Taiwan, we examined the impacts of social capital on creativity of R&D project teams from an intra-team perspective. Results of factor analysis revealed four factors extracted from the concept of social capital, namely social interaction, network ties, mutual trust, and shared goals. Findings suggested that social interaction and network ties had significant and positive impacts on creativity of R&D project teams, but mutual trust and shared goals did not. Managerial implications for managing social capital in R&D project teams are discussed.
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- 2007
7. Environmental jolts, entrepreneurial actions and value creation: A case study of Trend Micro
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Shih-Chang Hung, Yee-Yeen Chu, and Tzu-Hsin Liu
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Entrepreneurship ,Identification (information) ,Value creation ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Perspective (graphical) ,Economics ,Business and International Management ,Marketing ,Applied Psychology ,Industrial organization - Abstract
This paper draws on a single longitudinal case study of Trend Micro, a leading anti-virus company, to examine its entrepreneurial, value-creating trajectory. Applying and extending an entrepreneurship perspective, the paper manifests positive effect, rather than negative effect, of environmental jolt on entrepreneurial actions including opportunity identification and opportunity exploitation. We find that environmental jolt is likely to shift customers' cognition, which is an important source of opportunity and, in turn, catalyzes opportunity exploitation through innovations for value creation. The paper concludes with a model of the value-creating trajectory of Trend Micro. Implications for research and practices are discussed.
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- 2007
8. The Timing of Entry into a New Market: An Empirical Study of Taiwanese Firms in China
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Shih-Chang Hung, Danchi Tan, and Nienchi Liu
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Empirical research ,Negative relationship ,Strategy and Management ,First-mover advantage ,Demographic economics ,Business ,Business and International Management ,Marketing ,China ,Investment (macroeconomics) - Abstract
This study examines the determinants of the timing of Taiwanese firms' entry into China. Our empirical findings suggest that this strategic decision is influenced by both economic and institutional concerns. In particular, we found that Taiwanese firms that expected greater benefits from early entry tended to be early entrants in China, while those that were more sensitive to uncertainty chose to defer their entry. We also found a curvilinear relationship between firm size and timing of entry into China. Our findings further indicate that the negative relationship between investment irreversibility and early entry is weaker in the presence of substantial perceived first mover advantages.
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- 2007
9. Agile strategy adaptation in semiconductor wafer foundries: An example from Taiwan
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Bou-Wen Lin, Shien-Yang Wu, and Shih-Chang Hung
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business.industry ,Industry evolution ,Manufacturing engineering ,Ic industry ,Semiconductor industry ,Vertical disintegration ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS ,Wafer ,Operations management ,Business and International Management ,business ,Adaptation (computer science) ,Applied Psychology ,Agile software development - Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to discuss and examine how two Taiwanese firms–TSMC and UMC–who compete in the highly dynamic global semiconductor industry, are able to use their unique strategies to create a new wafer foundry sector. The birth of foundry business gave rise to the vertical disintegration of the IC industry. As the foundry industry evolved along its life cycle of embryonic, growth to shake-out stage, the focus of the foundry business migrated from manufacturing-centric to technology-centric and now to customer-centric. Various strategies were adopted at each stage by the incumbents to cope with the changes in the industry environment to sustain business growth.
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- 2006
10. The co–evolution of technologies and institutions: a comparison of Taiwanese hard disk drive and liquid crystal display industries
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Shih-Chang Hung
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Globalization ,Liquid-crystal display ,law ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Strategy and Management ,Market analysis ,Institutional structure ,Business ,Business and International Management ,Social institution ,General Business, Management and Accounting ,Industrial organization ,law.invention - Abstract
In this paper, we examine the different evolutionary processes and outcomes of the hard disk drive and liquid crystal display industries in Taiwan. To this end, we make two general theoretical claims. First, that an appreciation of the globalization of technology is as important as national institutions in understanding industry development in catch–up economies such as Taiwan. Second, in addressing both industrial survival and failure, that national institutions can have either a positive or a negative impact on sectoral activities. Empirically, we show that, in Taiwan, rigid social institutions conflict with the hard disk drive technology. This conflict, in turn, produces obstacles to Taiwanese firms’ search for new markets and skills in hard disk drives. On the other hand, Taiwan’s institutional structures provide a source of technical efficiency and market opportunity for the emerging liquid crystal display trajectory. This, in turn, drives Taiwanese industry towards adopting new practices in the manufacture of liquid crystal displays.
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- 2002
11. Emerging technologies in emerging markets: Introduction to the special section
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Jian Gao, Mei-Chih Hu, and Shih-Chang Hung
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Commerce ,Market economy ,Emerging technologies ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Special section ,Public policy ,Business ,Business and International Management ,Emerging markets ,Applied Psychology - Abstract
Emerging technologies have significant implications and profound consequences for firms, markets, government policy, and society as a whole. In emerging markets, however, social uncertainties are as important as technological and market uncertainties, and moreover are somewhat more complex. The papers in this special section offer views of how these important social uncertainties can be considered concurrently with technological and market uncertainties, particularly because they play a relatively larger role in emerging markets than in more advanced markets.
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- 2011
12. Institutions and systems of innovation: an empirical analysis of Taiwan's personal computer competitiveness
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Shih-Chang Hung
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Sociology and Political Science ,business.industry ,Corporate governance ,Software development ,Human Factors and Ergonomics ,Education ,Industrial Evolution ,Sectoral analysis ,Dominance (economics) ,Personal computer ,Technology and society ,Economics ,Business and International Management ,Marketing ,Lagging ,business ,Industrial organization - Abstract
By connecting institutions within industrial evolution, this paper develops a set of systems of innovation to explain the innovative performance of Taiwan's personal computer industry. Three major institutional blocks are identified: technology as a paradigm; organizational routines that are historically rooted in the structure of economic dominance; and the state's governance as an institution of policy style. The paper explores how each of these institutions is important for innovation, and then identifies methods associated with creating and sustaining innovative performance. The analysis is focused at the level of industry segments, that is, one level below sectoral analysis. While institutional co-evolution in technology and society often results in improved performance of an industry segment, institutional conflicts are likely to produce obstacles to the search for new markets by national firms as well as hinder adaptation to a changing environment. This explains why Taiwan's personal computer industry is competitive and innovative in hardware, but lagging in distribution and software development. The paper concludes with several strategic and policy implications.
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- 2000
13. [Untitled]
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Shih-Chang Hung
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Politics ,Institutionalisation ,Strategy and Management ,Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) ,Institutional analysis ,Context (language use) ,Sociology ,Business and International Management ,Economic system ,Social constructionism ,Variety (cybernetics) - Abstract
Drawing on institutional analysis of politics, this paper proposes a concept of policy system that is then applied empirically to Taiwan's industrial context of 1986–95. Contemporary political sciences now identify the institutionalization of state-business relations. Accounts differ, but generally they retain a strong sense of conventional rules in the formulation and implementation of industry policy. While taking this idea of rules seriously, we extend institutional perspectives on politics from the familiar confines of structural constraints to the institutional context of resources. Thus, a policy system is socially constructed with a variety of rules and resources, appreciable in the Taiwanese context.
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- 1999
14. When Technological Uncertainties Meet Social Uncertainties: Emerging Technologies in Emerging Markets
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Jian Gao, Shih-Chang Hung, and Mei-Chih Hu
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Commerce ,Emerging technologies ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Business ,Business and International Management ,Emerging markets ,Applied Psychology ,Industrial organization - Published
- 2009
15. The influence of geographical knowledge networks on innovative performance: evidences from the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park, Taiwan
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Shih-Chang Hung, Meng-Chun Liu, Yuan-Chieh Chang, and Bou Wen Lin
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Economics and Econometrics ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Strategy and Management ,Industrial park ,Regional science ,Business ,Business and International Management ,Marketing - Abstract
This paper examines how geographically inter-organisational networks affect innovative performance of firms located in industrial clusters, especially the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park (HSIP) in Taiwan. Based on an exhaustive manual search of the United Daily News Group database, 1445 inter-organisational alliances were identified in the period from 1991 to 2002. This research revealed that the innovation performances of firms in industrial clusters may benefit not only from networking in industrial clusters but also from national and international networking. Policies should encourage industrial clusters to establish symbiotic innovation networks between local, national and global partners.
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- 2009
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