Establishing Competitiveness Index for Taiwan District

• Main Authors: Chen-Yi Peng, 彭珍怡
• Other Authors: 劉順仁
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19890694150515424259

碩士 === 臺灣大學 === 會計學研究所 === 95 === The main purpose of this research is to establish competitiveness index for cities and counties in Taiwan. The research provides suggestions for governments and enterprises to promote regional competitiveness through friendly interactions. Regional competitiveness analyzes the facts and policies that shape the ability of a county government to create and maintain an environment that sustains more value creation for its enterprises and more prosperity for its people. This research refers to Professor Michael Porter from the Harvard Business School for the definition of competitiveness as “creation of fortune,” measuring it by the annual controllable income per capita. Based on analysis made by leading scholars and by national conditions, the research provides 33 criteria, grouped into five competitive factors, “Economic and Business Performance” and “Government Efficiency”, “Environment and Infrastructure”, ” Society and Humanity ” and “Technology and Innovation”, and aggregates data for a 4-year period. The research is based primarily on hard statistical data drawn form Directorate-General of budget, accounting and statistics and complemented by other official statistics. The methodology of this research is to sift relevant variables by simple linear regression analysis, to decide weights and calculate integration by factor analysis, and to interpret whether the results suggest a positive relationship between the integration of five factors and the annual controllable income per capita by multiple linear regression analysis. The results indicate that adjusted R square is 80% without the problem of multicollinearity. Individually the coefficients of the integration of the factors “Government Efficiency” and “Environment and Infrastructure” are statistically significant but other coefficients are not. This research shows that the top five cities of 2005 competitiveness evaluation are Taipei City, Taipei County, Taichung City, Kaohsiung City, and Hsinchu City; the bottom five cities are Pingtung County, Yunlin County, Penghu County, Taitung County, and Chiayi County. Overall, the major cities have satisfactory results while on the other hand, some counties in the east, south, and peripheral islands, such as Hualien, Pingtung, Penghu, and Taitung, have relatively weaker competitiveness. This study provides the government with advices on how to modify the weaknesses and develop the advantages to promote the competitiveness. However, due to the restraints on resources and time, the investigation is subject to improvement on index selection, sample size, and methodology.