The Role and Development of Taiwan IT Firms’ Headquarters ：The Power Relationship and Territoriality in Global Production Network

• Main Authors: Dow-Ning Yang, 楊道寧
• Other Authors: Jinn-Yuh Hsu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79063494489699967155

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 地理環境資源學研究所 === 93 === In the recent years, there are a lot of theories which talk about the global production with the viewpoint of power relationships, such as commodity chain ( Dicken, 1998), global commodity chain( Gereffi, 1989), and the global production network (Henderson et al., 2002) etc.. These plenty of theories with the similar core concepts make me want to know what the significances and meanings represent in the research or study of power relationship in Geography. Besides, Headquarter as a core strategy center of transnational corporations, must take the responsibility to control, coordinate, manage and maintain the complex production relations. So, heeadquarters become the hub of power relations in the global production network.On the other hand, headquarter’s location must offer the sufficient elements to sustain and support the specific function of headqurter also. Therefore, this research tries to describe the embeddedness of IT industry and discuss the role and development of firm’s headquarter in the industrializing Asian countries—espacially the position of Taiwaness IT companies. So, this study has three purposes. First, I attempt to apply the GPN theory to analyse the cross-boder activities of firms, to illustrate the key agents in the production process how to construct the power relationship and to find out the position of Taiwaness Company in the global production network. Second, I fucuse on comparing the differences of headquarter functions between Taiwaness IT Company and their key buyer’s enterprise. Third, I try to draw on the spatial configuration of IT industry in Taiwan, to outline what the pattern is and why the territoriality is highly spatial cluster.