| Summary: | 博士 === 中國文化大學 === 國際企業管理研究所 === 89 === A Study on the Relationship between MNEs’ Characteri-
stics and International Competitiveness of Firms of the
Information Hardware Industry in ROC and Japan
Student: Feng —Hua Yang Advisor: Prof. Tsai — Mei Lin
Chinese Culture University
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this research is to realize MNEs’ characteristics affect their interna-tional competitiveness. At first, this research analyses international competitiveness of the information hardware products.
As for the international competitiveness of the products, digital automatic data processing machines, terminals, image scanners and color video monitors are export specialization, they are global competitive. The four products are suggested to produce overseas, it can avoid the trade protect policy of developed countries and enlarge the market and endure the international competitiveness. Printers, keyboards, optical disc devices and power supply exchangeable are import specialization, they must produce domestic by transferring new technology from overseas. It must invest foreign if tech-nology transfer is impossible.
As for the relationship between MNEs’ characteristics and international competi-tiveness of firms, this research takes the numbers of foreign subsidiary, capital, density of R & D, years of foreign investment, and the numbers of employees as five inde-pendent variables. Using five independent variables to forecast the dependent variable. The dependent variable is composed of profitability, export market share, export de-pendency, and productivity. The result implies that the numbers of foreign subsidiary, density of R & D, and the numbers of employees positively influence international com-petitiveness of firms. The results of ROC and Japan are the same. The MNEs which adopt the international division of labor have stronger firm international competitive-ness than others don’t.
Finally, this research suggests to compare industries or countries in the topic for further studies.
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