| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 廣播電視學研究所 === 96 === Websites used to deliver audio or video services through broadband are getting popular due to the convergence of internet and audio/video services. The definition of video aggregated webcasters in this research is the broadband audio/video streaming website that is presented by portal site. Its function includes collection of all sorts of different audio/video contents and provides their consumers more diversified and completed audio/video services.
Recently the webcasting industry has become very competitive since there are more and more investors from all different industries investing in this market, including telecommunication and internet company, and some entertainment leading television stations. Since 2004, a series of merger and amalgamation started to rise in webcasting market in Taiwan. In order to build up more competitive advantages, some operators have also started to introduce video blogs and some other valued-added services such as providing users to download online movies. Because of the digital convergence, the uncertainty of this competitive environment has relatively increased. From the resource-based theory's point of view, making durable and constant effort is the most important principle the enterprise operations follow. The only way to maintain extremely strong competitive advantages is to acquire and accumulate resources continuously. Thus, this research examines enterprises’ core resources according to resource-based theory and identifies what kind of core resources the video aggregated webcasters has so far, what these core resources can offer these webcasters in terms of competitive advantages, and how to further develop the core resources in order to gain more market shares within this industry.
In order to discuss above-mentioned concerns, this research applies document analysis and in-depth interview to explore the webcasting industry in Taiwan and discover the core resources and its characteristics for video aggregated webcasters nowadays. In addition, this research discusses how video aggregated webcasters can enhance or further improve its core resources in order to build up it’s competitive advantages in 5 different competition aspects of market structure, route, network, chain and consumption.
After combining document analysis and in-depth interview, apart from providing some practical recommendations based on the researched cases, this research demonstrates that combination concept is the core resource of video aggregated webcasters. The common characteristics for the market leaders are highly skilled at some significant resources such as bandwidth, content, technique, capital and financial management capability. Lots of enterprises tend to emphasis on promoting their brands and reputations, audio/video compression and streaming capability and team and business executive capability. In the future, the operators can improve their interpersonal network and marketing experience and competence in order to advance their competitive advantages in the market.
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