Cross-border Learning Capability of Firm and Cultural Proximity? A Case Study of the Product Innovation of Instant Noodles by Taiwanese Frims in China

• Main Authors: Hsing-I Wei, 魏欣儀
• Other Authors: Jinn-Yuh Hsu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77798778321223403353

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 地理環境資源學研究所 === 94 === This article discusses the cross-border learning process of firms by a case study of Taiwanese instant noodles firms (Tinghsin and Uni-preside) in China. I propose that the researchers should pay more attention to the industrial categories beyond technology-intensive and global-assessing ones. Beside the demand of skills or technologies, other kinds of knowledge resources and its peculiarities should be taken into consideration. I stress that all proximities influenced knowledge transmission don’t come automatically, and those should be built instead of a pre-given condition. According to that, we should figure out how different geographical scales affect the learning capability of firms, and why it can be the indispensable foundation of firms. In the context of cross-border economic activities, the capability of firm is not only transferred but also exploited and developed in the process. And the national stamp of firm can be renewed in the cross-bordering process. I argue that the role of nation-state in shaping the learning capability of frim should not merely be bound to the national institution, and we can understand that by examining the process how the territorial and historical characteristics of nation-state effect the change and hybridization of the production of knowledge.