Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 企業管理研究所 === 93 === This research discusses the coevolution of NB industry and Notebook manufactures from the Competence Configuration viewpoint. The coevolution process observed from two levels that is the evolution mechanism in the industrial level, and the competence configurations in the firm level. From firm level to observe the enterprise how to change it competence figuration from building process in order to selection or adaptation their environment. In industry level we used time scale to describe main environment system.
The Taiwan NB manufactures has joined PC industry in early stage, had experienced and build up complete supply and demand adjustment; the overall industry developed maturely in a short time, and provides rich research data. This research observes NB industries and Taiwan NB manufactures-Quanta computer, Compal, inventec from 1995 ages to the initial period of 2004 ages.
We discover that the coevolution between firm and industry, which based on different level of vertical integration and numbers of customers can cause different competence configuration. We divide into three parts to evaluated business competence configuration:Vertical integrations、Product diversity、Customer that such heterogeneities lie in the firm’s ability to reconfigure the firm’s asset structure, and tend to accomplish the necessary transformation.
The case of Taiwan NB manufactures tell the truth that firms are not just adaptation by environment, firms have ability to select the environment to shape a fitting living environment for themselves.
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