This study investigates the decision factors regarding R&D investment activities. The subjects in this empirical study are from the countries of Taiwan, Japan, and Korea, which are all similar in the level of regional economic development and technology manufacturing. The research samples...

Research on industrial clusters mostly focuses on the effects of the competitive advantage they generate. This study takes a different approach, conducting empirical research on three types of Taiwanese parks (export processing zones, industrial zones, and science parks), in which economic...

In the construction industry, joint ventures (JVs) have become one of the major organizational forms utilized in large-scale and international projects. Because of the complexity of JVs, the management of JVs is much more difficult than that of usual projects. Among various management...

This study examines customer knowledge and opinions of airline social responsibility and explores the relationship between it and customer loyalty in the Taiwanese airline market. It is found that customers are concerned about social responsibility initiatives by airlines but the perceive its...

This study examines how an intention on the part of tourists to purchase items for daily use is determined by their awareness of franchise-branded stores, the image of those brands, and the perceived risk of purchase from non-franchised stores within Taiwan. In that country franchised chains are...

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) conduct foreign investments by transferring advantages across borders. Such advantages have varying degrees of transferability. This study explores the effect of the location-boundedness of MNEs' advantage on international strategy and subsequent subsidiaries'...

The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a significant increase in technology strategy research related to innovation capacity and technological diversity. Recent studies in the field of innovation capacity investigate whether the underlying performance differential among firms...

Regarding the increasingly important role of financial services sectors like futures exchanges previous research has been unable to determine what types of futures contracts contribute to higher trading volumes and the likely magnitudes of their contributions. Thus, to investigate the sources of...

The formation of R&D consortia can provide enterprises with many competitive advantages and allow them to achieve economies of scale. Therefore, R&D consortia are an important way of enhancing technical capacity, reducing cost and risk, and maintaining the competitive advantages of enterprises....

This study illustrates the factors that affect a firm's intention to engage in foreign direct investment (FDI) in China, using Taiwanese firms in the Information Technology (IT) sector as an example. By building upon the literature, we investigate a firm's decision to engage in FDI by taking...