A Study on Development factors of the Collaboration between Japanese and Taiwanese Companies of the Machine Tool Industry: Approach from Network Theory

• Main Authors: Yu-Ling Chiu, 邱毓鈴
• Other Authors: Eun-Teak Oh
• Format: Others
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/736r9w

碩士 === 國立臺中科技大學 === 應用日語系日本市場暨商務策略碩士班 === 101 === There are more than 60 years of collaboration history between Japanese and Taiwanese company. It has significantly changes to the qualitative and quantitative since 2000. The relationship between Japan and Taiwan has become closer under the influence of business environment changes in Japan, such as Asian expansion and yen appreciation; moreover the ECFA conclusion between Taiwan and China, the boom of collaboration between Japan and Taiwan occurred again. Meanwhile it has attracted attention in society and practical field. Compared to other industries, the collaboration between Japan and Taiwan in the machine tool industry was rare, but now it started to grow up. Under this background, the purpose of this study is to clarify the theoretical and empirical process of its formation and development factor of Japan and Taiwan cooperation in the machine tool industry. We focus on network resources that a company is embedded, led the theoretical proposition and three research framework from the review of previous studies as a theoretical background first. Then verify empirically the proposition of three through the case study of the cooperation of Japan and Taiwan machine tool company. The findings of this study shows that(1) In the case of collaboration between Japan and Taiwan in machine tool industry, the network resource of Taiwanese company, such as oversea sales network resource, especially the sales network resource in China, is working as a key factor of collaboration with Japanese companies (2) Center companies in the network that have accumulated a lot of network resources is active in cooperation with Japanese companies, also the development of joint ventures are sustainable and stable (3) Network connector were exist while the collaboration formation, which deeply understand both Japanese and Taiwanese culture to gain bilateral trust. Final, according to the facts that we found to describe the implication of International collaboration theory and network resources related to company management.