The Study of the Key Success Factors of Entrepreneurship for the Small and Medium Metal Processing Companies

• Main Authors: CHANG, CHING-FANG, 張靜芳
• Other Authors: SUN, TE-HSIU
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14487711137963137482

碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 工業工程與管理系 === 105 === This research is motivated by the fact that central Taiwan is the home to most precision machinery companies in Taiwan, but very few studies were conducted on the topic of entrepreneurship of the small and medium metal processing companies in this supply chain in the past. The purpose of this research is to investigate the key success factors of entrepreneurship for the small and medium metal processing companies. Grounded theory, a qualitative research approach, is used as the research method. Six small and medium metal processing companies located in Taichung and Changhua areas that are at least 10 years old are selected as research objects. Research data collected from the semi-structure in-depth interviews with research objects is used to sum up the problems faced by small and medium metal processing companies and their response strategies when their businesses were started. The goal is to identify the key success factors of entrepreneurship for the small and medium metal processing companies. Those factors may serve as references for those companies that are seeking to enter metal processing industry in the future. The research findings reveal ten key success factors of entrepreneurship for the small and medium metal processing companies. They are “technical expertise”, “industry experiences”, “transformation”, “operational planning”, “entrepreneurial learning”, “team building”, “business cycles”, “human networks”, “use of financial leverage”, “plant and equipment”. Keywords: entrepreneurship, key success factors of entrepreneurship, grounded theory