The Study of TMG Enterprise Glass Industry Cluster’s Productivity and Firm Boundary

• Main Authors: Chu-Chieh Huang, 黃筑婕
• Other Authors: Chih-Ning Chu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62692484350393183135

碩士 === 中原大學 === 企業管理研究所 === 97 === SMEs have made an important contribution to Taiwan's rapid economic growth. Despite their mutual cooperation but higher degree of competition, these SMEs often have limited resources. By observing the behavior of these companies, many researchers have found that they always cooperate with other firms to form an alliance or even a cluster-like organization. Some of these alliances have outstanding performance in the field of international competition. The objective of this study is to investigate how these alliances make such outstanding success under resource constraints? In Taiwan, lots of literature concerns industry cluster and alliances. Nevertheless, most of such literature focuses on geographical theories or observes the behavior of firm gathering, and little of it studies the basic theory of strategic management, such as alliance portfolio. Through in-depth interviews with TMG manufacturers and the collaborative firms among the cluster firms, this study, one the one hand, surveys from the perspective of resource production: how can cluster firms produce resource in a highly competitive market; on the other hand, it observes from the perspective of transaction costs: how can the collaborative firms among the cluster firms develop the professional division of labor? Through actual interviews, we have come up with following findings. First, a highly competitive industrial structure may cause a significant competitive pressure; however, relatively, it may provide abundant resources to manage and coordinate cluster. Second, the development of the professional division of labor is the mandatory condition for the growth of cluster or alliance portfolio companies. Third, in the fast growth stage of alliance portfolio or industry cluster, the increasing awards will foster the specialized capability of the firms. While developing the specialized capability of cluster firms, effective coordination on transaction costs is the key to judge the specialized capability of a firm and whether cluster or alliance portfolio can continue to produce increasing returns.