A significant problem in the construction industry is the losses sustained as a result of the theft of tools and equipment from construction sites. The case study company, referred to as PSS, have successfully developed and commercialized a technological solution to prevent such theft within Sweden. The next step in the commercialization of PSS is to seek growth and leverage their investment and innovation. Our purpose is to undertake a UK market analysis, in order to investigate if PSS's business model has opportunities in the UK, and recommend how PSS might approach internationalization, using a resource based perspective. PSS’s existing business model has been developed to fit the Swedish market conditions, and has been demonstrated to perform. We find market conditions in the UK are similar, albeit in greater proportions. The nature of the problem, the industry structures, and the competitive environment is similar to the domestic conditions, and the competitive position of PSS is replicable, with a high level of strategic fit. We recommend PSS pursue its desire to internationalize to the UK based on similarity of the fit with the local market (which has been demonstrated to result in acceptable performance). We would recommend entry through a sales subsidiary to facilitate the establishment of customer relationships. In addition a possible license agreement with a partner may help to facilitate speedy access to UK distribution industry networks.

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The population of late-married or non-married women is growing in the current society. Considering single women¡¦s unique consumer psychology and consumer behaviors, the researcher aimed to investigate the feasibility of a single women¡¦s virtual community by employing the web 2.0 and the visual community with a focus on its economic characteristics. The data were collected through the observations of related industries, interviews with experts and targeted groups, questionnaire investigation, and operation proposals. The results of the study were classified into two categories: the business model and the position strategy. The business model (a) can enhance increasing returns effects of the dynamic circle and the lock-in circle and accumulate members, (b) plays a role of informational intermediatry who integrates contents with strategic alliances, and (c) offers E-commence with which to satisfy users¡¦ dynamic needs. Three main phases¡Xexperience economy, reputation economy, and profit-earning¡Xare developed through such an advantage. The position strategy is to provide single women with an informational platform which addresses convenience, affinity, diversity, accuracy, safe-transaction, and customized-services. The platform includes four main topics: health, entertainment, self-growth, and investment. Therefore, it is able to meet single women¡¦s needs regarding health, travel, learning, and finance. The study also offers four suggestions for people who want to manage the virtual community. First, the virtual community should be developed based on market segmentation and take customers¡¦ intentions into account. Second, it should offer customized services and promote the worth of using experiences. Third, it should be a friendly, risk-free platform in which varied, up-dated information is given. Fourth, it should offer customers easy-using ways and allow them to share information as well as interact with others.

Nowadays, companies of emerging countries have started to compete with Taiwanese companies with the same OEM/ODM business model. This trend has made the advantages of manufacturing of Taiwanese companies disappeared. So the growth of Taiwanese economy that depends on exporting companies¡¦ products has suffered severe threats. Therefore, Taiwanese industries and government have struggled to transform into the field of OBM. They hope it can make more added values from OBM. This research studied on Taiwanese companies that have made some achievement in OBM field in the international base on resources-based view. This research studied on how they created and operated their own brands and how they planned their own international strategies of OBM, tried to find out the differences between OEM/ODM and OBM in nature, resources and abilities, and found out the main dimensions that how companies met the gap existing in resources and abilities. This study also tried to figure out the processes how companies with brands built up their OBM business in European markets, and then this study wanted to build a conceptual structure about how a business model transformed from OEM/ODM into OBM. Finally, the study found out another company that is a novice in building international OBM business, and did some analysis and suggestions for it based on the conceptual structure to verify the feasibility of the conceptual structure. The sources of the research data are from second-hand data and from interviewing with the studied companies. I hope the study can be a reference for any companies which want to build their business model of OBM. The results of this study showed that there is indeed a gap between OEM/ODM and OBM in respects of essence and the needed resources and capabilities. And the studied cases which have their own brands had an extent of similarity in building their OBM business in European markets. Therefore, this study tried to divide the processes of how the studied cases that built their OBM business in European markets into five stages, and every stage has different features and needed resources as well as capabilities. And then did some analysis and suggestions for the case which is a novice in building international OBM business. This study found out that the studied findings had an extent of feasibility and credibility.

This research is on the chain coffee store. The case study is formulated by applying ¡§resources-building mechanism¡¨ (Feng-Lee Lin, 2009) to look into the business models adopted by different market players. The goal is to decompose each business model, pinpoint the difference, understand the cause and effect between business models and performances, and, one step forward, to predict the the management result. In the ¡§resources-building mechanism¡¨ theory which defines a firm¡¦s physical-energy-spirit equivalents: physical to a firm¡¦s physical properties, energy to a firm¡¦s driving power, and spirit to a firm¡¦s frame of mind. Physical, energy, spirit are the three essential elements in the making of a resources. Each of the three elements interacts with one another. The resources-building relies on utilizing both a firm¡¦s internal and external resources. The internal and external resources optimization are mutually enhanced, interacted and ultimately merged. From the ¡§Resources-building mechanism¡¨ perspective to explain business model construction mechanism of chain coffee store and take the well-known coffee chain store as the object of study. The conclusions are drawn: 1. The business model of chain coffee stores is the aggregation of the interior ¡§product¡¨ and the exterior ¡§customer¡¨. 2. The business model is composed of service, management state, brand name, target customer, consumption and the market trend. All these factors interact with one another. 3. The performance of the market player is positively correlated with the coordination and conciliation of the above six factors. Therefore, by appraising the degree of conciliation, we can measure the effectiveness of management. 4. Forecast of the chain coffee store case management result: The CITY CAFÉ ranks on top of the list in the evaluation, the manage result will be best among the four companies.85¢J coffee has sound adaptive degree, the manage result will be only inferior to CITY CAFÉ while Starbucks¡¦ (TAIWAN) adaptive degree is ordinary and the manage result will be inferior to CITYCAFÉ and 85¢J. Crown &Fancy CAFÉ¡¦s adaptive degree is bad, the manage result will be the worst among the four.

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Because of the improving technology and the fast delivering information, the traditional trade business industry is downgrade. And because of customer¡¦s cost down, the OEM company gross margin is also downgrade. Makalot and Li&Fung are in the clothes industry. Their business models are not like other company, and have better performance. Therefore, the research choose Makalot and Li&Fung become the case company. The research investigates company¡¦s history and strategy position how to affect to choose the value activities, to keep the relationship with supplies and customers. Further, the research wants to know the different between Makelot and Li&Fung and to reason Makalot and Li&Fung¡¦s business model. The research has some result. The company¡¦s strategy position will affect the value activities in industry and the customers, supplies relationship. Although the Makelot and Li&Fung have different business model, they also achieve the goal to cost down, fast delivering product and good quality. The research hope Makelot and Li&Fung can be an example to other small companies in Taiwan.

Extensive relevant literatures, the research of the company , Hi-Tech industry , semiconductor industry is quite abundant to starting an undertaking, mostly leave for the discussion in terms of pioneering venture capital company, Its content has: Achieve the investment of investing the company and financing behavior , influence achieving and throwing the factor that the company invests in , achieving and throwing the company to the administration behaviour carried on of venture capital company. Lack researchs to probe into the behaviors of venture capital company as different industry life cycle stages for company behavior. So, this research attempts to base on business model of semiconductor industry and the products demand characteristic of the semiconductor, in order to find out about venture capital company¡¦s business model. Take the quality research approach mainly in this research, through investing the relevant personage of the industry and carrying on depth interview with start an undertaking to the industry of the semiconductor. The result of study is found: First, in the development in the future of IC industry, large-scale IDM and the competitions of Virtual IDM two kinds of main types of operation will appear; Second, will achieve and throw for the subject with the group type in achieving and throwing the development in the future of the cause in Taiwan; Third, make an investment in industry of the semiconductor more types of operation of going into operation industry of wound are under the jurisdiction of the passive role, receiving the type of operation of semiconductor manufacturer and demand characteristic of the products mainly influences; Fourth, on industry's technology import respect of the semiconductor, research unit and person who creates throwing industry of the industry are cognitive and different. So, it is mainly adjusted with transition of the demand characteristic of the products on the type of operation of the industry of the semiconductor of Taiwan that this research is thought. It is more passive role to create the going into operation industry , is interacted with demand characteristic of the products to leave and react by the semiconductor manufacturer mainly. So, in the development in the future, with the merger trend of the industry of the semiconductor, Taiwan¡¦s venture capital company will also move towards the way to combine.

Seeing that domestic securities underwriters are not able to develop effectively sustainable competitive advantages, the research is aimed to combine the resource-based view (RBV) and the value chain concept. Questionnaires are released to carry out investigation mainly into the securities associates of local underwriters for the purpose of finding out the vital enterprise source and value activities that construct the high performances of underwriters. And it also discusses the relation between value chain activities and business models of domestic underwriters, and the relation between their business models and high performances. The research discusses the following subjects based on the above research motive: 1. What kinds of essential assets and skills should underwriters grasp to obtain higher performances than those of their competitors? 2. Discussion of the vital value activities that construct the high performances of underwriters, and attempts to build the complete value chain of local underwriters. 3. Discussion on whether local underwriters will develop different business models due to emphasis on different value activities from those of their competitors. 4. Reasoning about whether the high performances of local underwriters will vary significantly because of different business models. The result of the research¡¦s practical testimony shows: ¡§Underwriting performance¡¨, ¡§customer developing ability¡¨, ¡§support from financial holding companies¡¨, ¡§channel and distribution¡¨ and ¡§underwriting superiors¡¦ charm and leading abilities¡¨ are considered by local securities associates to be five of the most important enterprise resources that constitute the high performances of underwriters. Among them, resources such as ¡§underwriting performances¡¨ and ¡§support from financial holding companies¡¨ are of durability, immobility, high embededness and not able to be duplicated. Plus, ¡§customer developing ability¡¨ and ¡§channel and distribution¡¨ are of durability, and partial immobility as well as resource embededness. All of the above resource characteristics are deemed by resource-based view to be able to form the sustainable competitive advantages of enterprises. After the variables of each factor in the aspect of value activities are measured, 24 items¡¦ means of importance degree are more than 3.79 among them. Analyzing descriptive statistics data, we find out that more than 70% of securities associates consider the effect of these 24 value activities to be important or extremely important, which implies that local securities associates highly agree to the importance that the support activities and primary activities in the value chain comprise the high-performance base of domestic underwriters. Furthermore, a complete value chain of local securities underwriters will be set up based on the result. In the field of cluster analysis for the aspect of business models, the research adopts the minimum variance method (also called Ward¡¦s method) among hierarchical methods, and divides 20 securities underwriters into three groups based on one¡¦s strong or weak behaviors of each value activities compared with those of other rivals of the same business. After analyzing performance variables such as the number of underwriting cases (act as the lead underwriter), the total amount of underwriting, profit abilities, employees¡¦ productivity, and customer satisfaction, we find that their significance level are less than 0.05, which indicates that there are obvious differences among the performances of different groups of business models. And with Post Hoc multiple comparison, it is found that there are distinct variances among the performances of different groups of business models except for the three performances - profit abilities, employees¡¦ productivity and customer satisfaction - of group 1 and group 2.