Reviews the distinctive cultural patterns found in Taiwan, and then discusses the management practices of three “excellent” Taiwanese companies and explores their success in terms of the eight major characteristics discussed by Peters and Waterman in In Search of Excellence .

American industry has been challenged from goods coming from abroad. Once pre‐eminent in quality in the 1940s and 1950s, US companies can no longer stand complacent while their market share erodes in the face of foreign competition, especially from Asian companies. To see how American industry...