The co-evolving process analysis of the conventional lighting and LED lighting industries: The resource-based view and the perspective of resource dependence

• Main Authors: Kuang-chung Huang, 黃冠中
• Other Authors: Tzu-Hsin Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15756670357623244734

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 經營與管理學系科技管理碩士班 === 101 === Taiwan had earned the reputation of “the world lighting kingdom” in 1989, based on the conventional lighting industrial development. On the other hand, when LED came into the lighting market, its initial purpose is to become an alternative solution for conventional lighting. However, both conventional lighting and LED lighting manufacturers recognize that they cannot substitute for each other; therefore, they start to form alliance relationship in order to sustain competitive advantage. The research use a longitudinal, qualitative case study to confer how conventional lighting and LED lighting form a specific relationship from mutual exclusive to compatibly in Taiwan. In addition, the research draw on resource-based theory and resource dependence theory to explain the interdependence relationship between the two types of Taiwanese lighting manufacturers. This research interviewed some manufacturers in both conventional and LED lighting and concluded that both conventional and LED lighting have unique resources that the other does not have, and they need to depend on each other for capture those important resource to sustain competitive advantage. Consequently, this study illustrates how firms rely on resource dependency to capture key resources and transform them into their resource-based competitive advantage.