Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 科技管理研究所 === 100 === With the global economic growth rate slowing down, the market becomes more and more competitive. Many companies try to create new businesses to face the environmental change and to keep growing. However, these companies face a business predicament of lacking core competencies while establishing new business, thus, usually leading to unsuccessful expansions. Therefore, it is necessary for the companies to seriously take core competencies into consideration as they intend to develop new business through organizational innovations.
This study aims to explore the issue of how industrial firms build up their core competencies as they develop new businesses through organizational innovations. A multi-case study approach is used and four companies from the electronics industry in Taiwan are selected as research subjects. The preliminary findings from the study are as follows:
1. Organizational innovations are shown to be conducive to new business development.
2. A reform of corporate managerial systems is indicated to be helpful for enhancing the flexibility of new business development.
3. A re-structure of corporate culture shows a significant impact on the positioning of new business development.
4. Both of technological innovations and administrative innovations indicate a positive relationship with the establishment of the core competencies during the process of new business development.
5. The industrial firms are shown to enhance their methodological competencies through administrative innovations.
6. A holistic innovation based on the culture, organization, institution and managerial systems indicates a positive relationship with the industrial firms’ innovative capabilities and implementation capabilities.
Keywords:
Organizational Innovation, Technological Innovation, Administrative Innovation, Core Competencies, New Business, the Electronics Industry
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