| Summary: | 碩士 === 東海大學 === 食品科學系 === 82 === The purpose of this research is to investigate the
market structure, conduct, performance as well as the
public policy of the food industry in Taiwan, and the major
factors affecting the market performance is also studied. The
research framework is based on the theory of mainstream
industrial organization school. Based on the theoretical
ground and statistical techniques, the thesis studies the
characteristics of the structure, conduct, and performance
variables within Taiwan Food Industry. The relevant
structural variables are entry barriers, import and export
density, CR4, cost structure, risk, market growth, growth
rate of produced value, and relative scale within
industry; the conduct variables include density of promotion,
density of R&D, diversification, technique purchased from
foreign countries,and investment on fixed assets; while the
performance variables considered are profit rate and
productivity. The model of performance equation (profit
and productivity) is estimated using 4-digit standard
industrial classification industry data from the Republic
of China for 1988-1991. The empirical results show that
the magnitude of marginal impact of promotion density variable
in the profit rate function is the largest, while the magnitude
of marginal impact of density of R&D in the productivity
function is the largest variable.
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