...Taiwan’s bicycle industry A-Team battles Chinese competition with innovation and cooperation Jonathan Brookfield, Ren-Jye Liu and John Paul MacDuffie Jonathan Brookfield is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and International Business at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (jon.brookfield@ tufts.edu). Ren-Jye Liu is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information at Tunghai University in Taiwan (liurj@ie.thu.edu.tw). John Paul MacDuffie is co-director of the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) at MIT and an Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (macduffie@wharton. upenn.edu). The People’s Republic of China (China) has become a workshop to the world, and manufacturing there is increasingly moving beyond labor intensive, low value-added products. As a result, China poses a severe competitive challenge to companies in many industries around the world. For such companies, the recent successes of the bicycle industry in the Republic of China (Taiwan) may provide at least some reason for hope. Broadly speaking, Taiwan’s previous economic success has been built on the competitiveness of its small and medium sized enterprises, and competition among such companies has tended to be high. Such firms have shown a remarkable ability to recombine and form new networks in line with market changes. We call such networks ‘‘modular, symbiotic supplier networks’’ and, during the 1980s...
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...ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS, EFFICIENCY, AND CUSTOMER SERVICE PERCEPTIONS IN TAIWANESE BANKS HsiuJu Rebecca Yen Department of Business Administration College of Management Yuan Ze University 135 Far East Rd. Chung Li, Taiwan Email: hjyen@saturn.yzu.edu.tw & Brian P. Niehoff Department of Management 101 Calvin Hall Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506 Phone: (785) 532-4359 FAX: (785) 532-7024 e-mail: niehoff@ksu.edu Running Head: OCB and Effectiveness MIDWEST ACADEMY of MGMT OB/OT Track RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS, EFFICIENCY, AND CUSTOMER SERVICE PERCEPTIONS IN TAIWANESE BANKS ABSTRACT Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) describe actions in which employees are willing to go above and beyond their prescribed role requirements. Prior theory suggests and some research supports the belief that these behaviors are correlated with indicators of organizational effectiveness. Studies have yet to explore whether relationships between OCB and organizational effectiveness are generalizable to non-U.S. samples. The present study examined relationships between OCB and two indicators of organizational effectiveness -- the efficient use of human resources and perceived service quality – for bank branches in Taiwan. The results supported a relationship between the OCB dimension of altruism and the efficient use of human resources. Implications of these results are discussed. Key Words: citizenship...
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...A Study on BEING AN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSMAN WHAT WOULD BE YOU CONSIDERATION TO EXPORT Leather TO Taiwan By Ms. Zenat Sultana Reg ID: A Field Work Report Submitted to Mr. Quamrul Ahsan Course Instructor: - International Business Faculty of Business Brac University BRAC University, Dhaka December 13, 2014 December 13, 2014 Quamrul Ahsan Course Instructor- International Business BRAC University, Dhaka Dear Instructor: Enclosed report is concentrated on the consideration factors as an international businessman to export Leather to China, India and the European belt which stands a viable business case and feasible return on investment. This report is aimed to be found justified & satisfactory. Sincerely, Ms. Zenat Sultana Student ID: Executive Summery International business grew over the last half of the twentieth century partly because of liberalization of both trade and investment, and partly because doing business internationally had become easier. In terms of liberalization, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiation rounds resulted in trade liberalization, and this was continued with the formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. At the same time, worldwide capital movements were liberalized by most governments. Today, business is acknowledged to be international and there is a general expectation that this will continue for the foreseeable future. International business may be defined...
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...National Taiwan University College of Management Department of Accounting Accounting for Managerial Decisions Spring 2014 Instructor: Liao, Chih-Hsien Class Time: Wednesday 14:20－17:20 Office: Room 912, Building 2, College of Management Phone: (02) 3366-1121 Email: Office Hours: Monday 10:00－12:00, or by appointment Teaching Assistant (TA): COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is designed to provide an overview of basic cost accounting systems and how cost information is applied in an organization’s internal management. Cost accounting systems provide valuable information for managerial planning and control. The first part of this course focuses on how to determine the precise costs an enterprise incurs to make products or deliver services. The second part of this course introduces how managerial accounting helps organizations to evaluate product/customer profitability, improve cost management and create more value. Managers rely on accurate cost information to make a variety of decisions, including product pricing, budgeting, sales mix, inventory management, and employee performance evaluation. The class focuses primarily on lectures, supplemented by case discussions designed to stimulate students’ critical thinking and analytical skills. COURSE OBJECTIVES 1) Demonstrate an understanding of important characteristics and elements of various cost systems. 2) Develop the ability to use cost information to make business decisions and solve management...
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...Islands in Chinese or Senkaku in Japanese are a tiny group of islands, 6.3 km² in total, in the East China Sea. The islands consist of eight tiny insular formations, of which only two are over 1 km² (the Diaoyu/Uotsuri Island is the biggest one with 4.3 km²), five are completely barren, and none are currently inhabited or have had any kind of reported human economic activity. Notwithstanding these unfriendly natural features, the islands have brought China and Japan into a bitter dispute since 1960’s because of their strategic importance in terms of security and economy, as well as their significant political implications. The Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands are located approximately midway between the island of Taiwan and the Japanese Ryukyu Islands, around 120 nautical miles northeast of Taiwan, 200 nautical miles southwest of Okinawa, and 230 nautical miles east of China mainland. This particular location of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands makes them special to both China and Japan’s national defense. Should either China or Japan legally secured the sovereignty over the islands, they would grant their owner an advantage in military security with a...
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...Recently China has made extraordinary efforts in modernizing legal and economical system aimed to stabilize the growth of the country; however China remains a strictly controlled country, where civil liberties, such as freedom of communication, religion practice and demonstration are severely limited. Major internal problems in China include growing corruption, increasing rural poverty and environmental degradation. China enjoys a strong relationship with the US and other western countries and is likely to increase its influence in the region due to its expanding economy. China has difficult relations with a number of neighbouring countries, such as Japan, Vietnam, North Korea and Tibet; in particular the strained relationship with Taiwan could ultimately result is a war if the Taiwanese government formally declares independence. -Economical China economy is characterized by its extraordinary size and growth. The GDP has grown steadily since 2003 peaking at 11% year-on-year growth in 2007 (China Business Forecast Report 2008, [1]) and inducing concerns about the country over-capacity in the long term. The US government is trying to exercise its influence to accelerate the appreciation of the Yuan, in an effort to limit or at least control its export deficit. Although the People’s Bank of China has raised the interest rates for five consecutive times in 2007, inflation is still very high with peaks of 6.2% in 2007. Economic growth is still mainly driven by fixed...
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...The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0955-534X.htm The collaborative strategy in the Taiwan shoe industry Tzong-Ru ( Jiun-Shen) Lee and Toong-Chinn Venice Koh Department of Marketing, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the reason behind a sustainable guanxi network through the introduction of the collaborative strategy in the Taiwanese shoe industry. Design/methodology/approach – Literature review in the area of Chinese business culture, and guanxi network is used to elaborate the information obtained from the company. Findings – This paper highlights that the belief of sincerity and trustworthiness has refined to the organization culture that supports the sustainability of Taiwanese guanxi network. Besides, the transaction cost theory, resource-based view, and specific relationship investment has become a hinder strategy for Taiwanese organization to maintain the business relationship. This paper introduces an interesting collaborative strategy between three parties, the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) supplier, the machinery manufacturer, and the end-user (the branding). Although there is no direct business flows between the end-user and the machinery manufacturer, the specific relationship investment between these two parties are tight and cannot be separated. This has ensured the proper business flows between the OEM supplier and the...
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... Hong Kong, overseas Chinese, and, to a certain extent, Malaysia) have come from Taiwan. Even in non-Chinese-speaking countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region (such as Japan, Korea, and Indonesia), Taiwanese pop culture is becoming increasingly trendy and fashionable. This has happened despite significant challenges that Taiwan faces due to its unique political situation and is a testament that the pillar of cultural globalization has to the power to transcend national boundaries. In fact, Taiwan’s success in media and entertainment is bringing Taiwan and China far closer together than political and economic means have over the past six decades. Since China began opening up to the world in the 1980s, mainland Chinese have been more receptive to music from other parts of the Chinese-speaking world, in spite of cultural and political differences. Nowhere is this more obvious than the vociferous consumption of Taiwanese pop culture, particularly its music. According to Baidu, China’s top search engine, 12 of the Top 25 singles in China in December 2007 were from Taiwan, including seven songs in the Top 10. Another seven were by artists from Hong Kong and Singapore. Only eight songs on the list were from mainland artists. One potential reason for this success is Taiwan’s relative openness to global cultural influences. One of Taiwan’s most popular artists, David Tao, was born in Taiwan, but spent part of his childhood in Hong Kong and attended high school and college...
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...Distance LACK OF LAND BORDER As you can see above the island of Taiwan is located in the Western Pacific between Philippines and Japan. Turkey is bounded by the Aegean Sea on the west, on the northwest by the Sea of Marmara, Greece and Bulgaria and on the north by the Black Sea. Taiwan is available for air and sea transportation. There are five harbors and eighteen airports in Taiwan, two of which are international. At this point we think that the sea transportation is suitable for the transport of bulky goods like hybrid cars although it is the slowest shipping method for exporting goods. In addition, sea transportation is the most preferred transportation method according to air, road transport and railway because of the cheapest way. DIFFERENCES IN CLIMATES AND DISEASE ENVIRONMENTS In Taiwan there is no severe cold in winter and no cruel summer. Annual average temperature of Taiwan is 22 degrees Celsius. Weather conditions can fluctuate little during winter and spring but the weather is relatively stable in winter and autumns. As a disease environment, we can talk about a liver disease which is a common disease in Taiwan. A parasite Cryptocaryon which infect with raw or uncooked fish damages to liver so it is known for liver disease. Other diseases that can be seen in Taiwan are HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. Ultimately cardiovascular diseases which occurs results of air pollution can be seen in Taiwan. Typically, three climatic types can be seen in Turkey, black sea...
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...For some visitors, shopping in Hong Kong has become the sole purpose of their visit. Tourism shopping*, therefore, is not only a major source of income from foreign visitors, but can itself provide a powerful attraction to bring them to Hong Kong. There arc seven major market areas for Hong Kong tourism: Europe (the UK, Germany, France and Italy), North America (the USA and Canada), Japan, Oceania (Australia and New Zealand), South East Asia (the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia), Taiwan and mainland China. In the 1980s North America, Europe and Japan were the three major tourist markets. Changes have been taking place over the past decade in terms of tourist markets, visitor characteristics, purpose of visits, choice of accommodation and visitor spending patterns. In recent years, Taiwanese and mainland Chinese tourists have led European and American tourists as the major markets for the Hong Kong tourism industry. The Asian markets (visitors from Taiwan, mainland China and Japan) have taken over from the Western markets (visitors from North America and Europe) as the major contributors. In 1995, over 70% of visitors came from Asia and mainland China, compared with 25% from North America, Europe and Oceania. These three markets contributed over 50% of the total...
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...about the side effects from the chewy pearls broke out among netizens. This was not the first time that the bubble tea business, originating 30 years ago in Taiwan, has been challenged that their tapioca pearls contain harmful substances. We wrote about the bubble tea craze last year, and mentioned the first scare of finding a carcinogen, diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), in the chewy black pearls. After the ban on maleic acid contamination in June, why are we still seeing the bubbles lurking in our cold tea? Is our fear about kidney failure real? We decided to get to the bottom of this. Are we safe now? It is common for us to take action immediately after hearing news about what can kill us. However, let’s look into it with a little more detail based on a very simple reason: Bubble tea has been in the market for 30 years. If the chewy balls are going to cause cancer or kidney failure, wouldn’t there be a lot of casualties by now? We remember how popular they were in pasar malam (night market) 20 years ago when the bubble tea wind blew over to Malaysia. If the claim that the pearls contained maleic acid was true, how did this kidney failing substance make its way to the products? Why would it be used? Scandals over the years The first hit – PCBs & DEHP In 2011, German researchers from the University Hospital Aachen tested tapioca pearls from a bubble tea company in Northern Germany where the...
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...Executive Summary: Our group decided to work with Walt Disney Company for operating a theme park in Taiwan. After doing some research on Taiwan local culture and environment it really helps us to know more about this “Treasure Island” which is the place that we decided to operate business. At first of course we were doing some research about our partner Walt Disney Company. As we know this huge company does have an intention to consider Taiwan as viable location to import their company product for long time ago. Taiwan’s island population concentration of 641.24 km2, which is only second to Bangladesh’s 1,101.2 km2, would cause great desire to have the Disneyland and Resorts, especially in the southern part of Taiwan which is where all the good beaches reside. For the Geographical setting of Taiwan, we found that it have both advantage and drawback for us when operating a theme park business here. Advantage is Taiwan is a small island which means the entire Taiwanese or tourist that came to Taiwan may easily come to visit our theme park, unlike Japan or United States; tourist might not easily or have no time to visit every single place in those big countries. But on the other hands, we also might not able to find an suitable huge place to held theme park in such a small island, especially these place already have plenty of theme park as well. For aware this challenge, we have a good strategy to resolve it, that is take over or work with one of the local theme park, the...
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...Can China rise without creating military tension with America and its neighbours in the Asia Pacific Area? Having a powerful and strong neighbour can be both a good thing and a worrying one at the same time. China, the East Asia Giant, is a powerful neighbour whose influence on the international platform today can no longer be underestimated. Its backyard, which namely is the Asia Pacific Area, is composed of by great forces such as Japan, South Korea, India etc., which are all allies of the U.S.A, and small or medium sized countries such as Malaysia and Vietnam etc., as well as a politically sensitive region -- Taiwan, which is regarded as a ‘lost territory’ by Beijing. It is this kind of unique layout of powers in the Asia Pacific Area that raised the concern that the current balance of big powers will be broken inevitably on China’s way of seeking regional hegemony and small or medium-sized countries worry they might be victims of conflicts between great forces. It’s believed that as China continues to grow up it will not tolerate America staying in its backyard and it will try to retrieve its ‘lost territory’, while others believe the current stability of the area will not be challenged because of China’s own limitations. There are a lot of concerns that when China becomes increasingly powerful, will the current balance of the established Asia Pacific Area be broken? And how will America react to China’s rise? John Mearshimer believes that China will not rise peacefully as...
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...and Academia Sinica in Taiwan to explore the adaptation of Mainlander Taiwanese in China. They moved from China to Taiwan in 1949 and back “home” with their descendents in 1990s. By examine the life of seventeen respondents in Dongguan/Shanghai in 2004-2005, we argue that they were in sense of double marginality despite the diversity of the sample. Whilst foreigners regarded China as a new territory to explore more economic benefits, these returnees were more likely to regarded China as a place with sense of belonging, not sense of colonising. However, they found that the real China was different from what they expected before return. They felt being excluded from Taiwan, but they also felt unwilling to participate in China due to this home disillusion. Further discussion on the adaptation of other type Taiwanese in China will be displayed in separated papers. Keyword: return migration, Taiwan, China! 1. Introduction Whilst most migration research focuses on why people move from poorer countries to richer countries and how they overcome the widely cultural gap in migration, there is little research stressing on migration either on the opposite direction or between countries with cultural proximity. The phenomenon of Taiwanese people in China1 provides us a good chance to fill in this gap. It is Ping Lin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. Email address: polpl@ccu.edu.tw 1 The official title of Taiwan today is the Republic of...
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...Final Paper: Senkaku Diaoyu Dispute Word Count: 3008 Table of Contents Abstract3 Sino-Japanese Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands4 Pending Controversy from the Chinese Perspective 4 China’s Strategy in the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute 6 Issue Linkage and Coercive Diplomacy 6 Sino-Japanese political-economic relations 8 Cold Politics and Hot Economics 8 References13 Abstract: The Senkaku Diaoyu crisis is a territorial dispute between China and Japan over a group of islands know as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese. The Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands dates back to as early as 1895 when Japan annexed the islands. It was not until the 1960’s and early 1970’s that the dispute becomes a major topic of Sino-Japanese relations due to a report by the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East that suggested possible large hydrocarbon deposit in the waters off Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands (Zhongqi, P. 2007). China however, has clearly stated that the islands have been its territory for the last five centuries (Yuan 2013). There are many disputes in regards to the ownership of the islands. Firstly, China believes that Japans claim of sovereignty over the islands in 1895 holds no meaning, leaving the lands unclaimed. Second, China and Japan disagree over whether Japan returned the islands to China after the Japanese defeat in World War II. Lastly, China and Japan debate over how their maritime boundary in the East China...
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