A Study of Key Success Factors of Cross-cultural Projects for East and West Collaboration– Taking S Project as a Case Study.

• Main Authors: Ya-Ling Kang, 康雅菱
• Other Authors: Jen-Ruei Fu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hyr3jt

碩士 === 國立高雄應用科技大學 === 資訊管理系碩士在職專班 === 102 === 「Contract」 is a progress of writing personal ideas for both undersigned parties, therefore safeguard the contract implementation is to realize the protection of mutual benefits. Subject to history, culture and social systems, establishment and compliance with legal system have become conventional behaviors to Western countries; as a result, in the trading process, the formal validity of「contract」always plays an important role. In Eastern society, due to the Confucian culture, Chinese people will usually make prior communication while encountering problems and emphasize harmonious interpersonal relationship without breaking it. In general, laws are the latest tool that they are forced to use it; that is, their fundamentally different viewpoints to legal system that made different concepts, or even using methods and attitudes toward contract in Chinese world from the recognition of laws that established since children in Western world. This study used the case study of one large-scale domestic SI company for those problems it encountered while carrying out an collaboration project with west country to explore the contract origin of East and West to discover the difference between them. In addition, this study made a painstaking investigation to clarify all problems that may be encountered in the process of introducing international collaboration. Research results showed that those factors, such as East and West viewpoints of the「Spirit of Contract」, choices of media communication for「Media Richness Theory」 and superiors’「 Escalating of Commitment」are the key to succeed or fail such international collaboration. 「Humanism」 emphasized in Eastern world while 「Laws」 in Western world, either one has its own advantage, and they all yielded from adapting environment no matter pros and cons. However, due to the trend of globalization and collaboration with Western countries, it would be more suitable to apply West’s contract system to encounter unknown trades with different cultures. In addition, proper improvement in enterprises’ recognition of laws is definitely the most optimal foundation to reduce project risk and protect successful trading.