The energy crisis and environmental consciousness arising in recent years induce the rapid development of renewable energy technology, especially in solar energy field. Under the policy support of Germany and Japan, the solar energy market expands to the world speedily. Moreover, due to the high values of environmental protection topics in United Nations and European Union and Kyoto Protocol establishment, the renewable energy industry is imperative to prevail among the world. As a result of the industrial rapid growth, companies adopt all kinds of tactics to develop capability in order to occupy the renewable energy market. Thanks to the remarkable achievement in LCD-TFT and semiconductor industries, Taiwan manufacturers applied the past experiences to invest in the solar cell industry, especially in thin film solar cell product. During 2005 to 2007, many companies found one after another. This research mainly probes into the trend of Taiwan thin film solar cell industry. First, understand the competitors and global market conditions, then penetrate the industrial structure with Porter¡¦s five forces model, discuss the competitive advantage of Taiwan with Porter¡¦s diamond model, and look for the competitive ability of Taiwan thin film solar cell industry by SWOT analysis. Finally, the research proposes some developing suggestions for Taiwan thin film solar cell industry.

The telecommunication/IT industry were rapid growing in the recent years, and the telecommunication manufacturer promoted the foundation equipment application unceasingly. In such the developing nations like China and India, the network foundation equipment demand grows gradually, in which China was already the quickest growing nation in telecommunication markets of the whole world, the growth rate will continuously maintain about 14% every year in the future. The Switching Power Supply (hereafter refers to as SPS) is rapidly growing in the country, in which the SPS has high profit potential product. By successful developing experience, integrity, vertical & horizontal conformity industrial structure, high quality, short delivery, smaller size, higher output, lower cost, better radiation, which create the industry competitive advantages. The purpose of research is to understand the industry development tendency of SPS, and will discuss how the value chain of SPS to survive under the global finance pressure, and even face with the re-shuffle effect. In this research take D Corporation as the example, discusses under the marketing demand drop pressure , how to develop the competitive business model and key successful factors to cope with. Then, using tool like SWOT, five forces analyses, discovers the way for D corporation to go forward to right direction. Finally, the concrete suggestion will be proposed, and to provide with the conclusion to D Corporation and related Department or organization as compete strategy in the future.

This research is based on the Conservation Economy Framework and ecological design to discuss the sustainable development of local economy in Taiwan¡¦s country. The progress goes through the discussion of Porter¡¦s Diamond Model and industry cluster theory to discuss the contribution that integrates green house and renewable energy into Taiwan¡¦s organic industry. Then focus the impact of organic industry cluster at the development of local economy in Taiwan¡¦s country and what the successful factors need! Furthermore, goes through Porter¡¦s five forces¡¦ framework to discuss the competitive environment structure of organic industry, the competive impacts, and how a keen competion the firm needs to face and adopt the strategic position, business model, and the analysis of a lasting competitive advantage. Next is to use the analysis of SWOT to discuss the factors of ¡§The integration of green hours and renewable energy into the organic industry for a firm or producer¡¨ and ¡§The factors of integration of green hours and renewable energy into organic industry for the development of local economy in Taiwan¡¦s country. The ecological coservation is the principle to maintain organic industry in the status of sustainable development and competition that combines government¡¦s plan to build country¡¦s development and activates country with new appearance in a lasting one via the integration of green house and renewable energy. The organic products, green house, and renewable energy are closely linked to human¡¦s life day-to-day, example: the secure of food provisions, the quality of life, the protection of ecological environment, and the recycling of clean resource of energy. Organic farming is the best solution for agriculture, a firm or producer can integrate the green house and renewable enerbey for the value¡Vadded. Mix agriculture, tourism, ecological agriculture, rural development to launch a new combination. The main green house and residential combined effect has assembled relief countryside villas, greenhouse management rooms, cottages, second-generation insulation activities room, storage, and so on. Such a small house and greenhouse and organic factory farms planted with engaging in infrastructure, ecology and the expansion of tourism can be achieved all-round exchange of urban and rural areas so that people in some cities in the rural area with second homes and high-tech. Taiwan¡¦s organic industry need to implement the differential strategy of high technology toward an environment protection concept with the competitive advantage in sophisticated strategy, specializated strategy, and produce in factory automation that can enhance the productivity, the economies of scale, and the quality of product, also need to target the product at high-tech, high-knowledge, and professional produce to gain the benefit of high pricing sale.

Throughout history, a number of financial centers have risen and fallen. While the significance of some centers have deteriorated, a small number of centers have emerged as today's leading financial centers by meeting a specific set of necessary conditions needed to successfully address the growing financial needs of the regions they are located. Furthermore, an even smaller number of financial centers have been able to sustain and expand their initial dominance in the financial industry by continuously satisfying a more focused set of conditions and factors. This thesis focuses on adapting Michael Porter's Diamond Model in determining, clustering, and expanding key factors that have historically given cities such as London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo their current status at the pinnacle of the financial centers of the world. This thesis begins by taking Porter's model that addresses national competitive advantage nations from a macroeconomic point of view, and adapting it to the development of financial centers at a microeconomic level. It utilizes Michael Porter's established grouping corners for identifying a vast array of macroeconomic and microeconomic factors that have historically played critical roles in increasing productivity and efficiency within a center's financial industry. Additionally, this thesis categorizes these factors into parameters that form a theoretical model designed to showcase the path to global financial dominance for an aspiring financial center. With the adaptation of Porter's model outlined in this thesis, financial centers are given a figurative blueprint of what constitutes a successful financial center. The theoretical model analyzes the necessary conditions and environments that a center needs to recreate within itself, or are endowed with, in order to be a globally competitive financial center.

The purpose of this study is to map out and analyse the competitiveness of the clothing-manufacturing sector in Rwanda on a local, regional and international level. The research was carried out as a case study of the Rwandan clothing-manufacturing sector through a two-months field study in Rwanda. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with local fashion designers, clothing manufacturers and ministry representatives. Observations in manufacturing plants, local markets and tailoring studios were also carried out. The findings were analyzed through an analysis model based on Porter’s diamond model, enhanced with the notions of country of origin effect (COO), corporate social responsibility (CSR) and customer-based brand equity (CBBE). The findings show a sector that is struggling with its competitiveness on a local, regional and international level. Lack of relevant factor conditions such as cheap labour and energy as well as low local demand indicates that the country is not suitable for mass-production of clothes. The emerging fashion scene shows abundance in creativity and entrepreneurship, but there is a need for more developed tailoring skills, product quality level and knowledge in management and marketing. Rwanda is not competitive for mass-production of clothing, but the sector could profile itself on high-end fashion and products with craftsmanship qualities. Allocating resources to education and investments in supporting industries could help the Rwandan clothing-manufacturing sector to profile itself on a regional and international market. No studies on the Rwandan clothing-manufacturing sector and its competitiveness have been done since 1989. Due to the shifting focus towards East-Africa as a textile and clothing-manufacturing hub, an update of the situation in Rwanda was found relevant. The study contributes to the existing literature on competitiveness in the textile industry and forms a relevant stepping-stone for further research. / Program: Textilekonomutbildningen

Because of the growth in income per capita as a consequent to the growth of global economy, skin care and cosmetic products have changed from luxury items to daily essentials. Together with the human nature of pursuing attractive appearance, factors such as decrease in the level of average age of cosmetic consumers, the increase of frequency of using cosmetic products, strong demand for high end skin care products with medical effects, and government support in developing cosmetic manufacturing as a key industry, suggest that the cosmetic market still has a significant growth potential. In addition, the recent popularity of ¡§cosmo-ceutical products¡¨ is pushing a number of major local corporations to enter the cosmetic market with biotech innovations. Because of the ease of transforming from chemical-related product manufacturing to cosmetic manufacturing, the local cosmetic industry is now saturated by small to medium-sized manufacturers. However, the local manufacturers are faced with the challenges of lack of GMP related legislation system for the cosmetics industry, shortage of financial resources, insignificant company size, and local R&D still awaits effective improvement. Therefore, it impossible for local companies to compete with the international cosmetics corporate giants. This paper will discuss the example of Taiwan Salt¡¦s successful transformation to a cosmetics manufacturer with collagen products. The example will be followed by analysis on the cosmetics industry in Taiwan and the competitiveness of global cosmetics companies such as P&G, L¡¦Oreal, Estee Lauder, and Shiseido. Selected companies will be analyzed for comparing their operational strategies. The findings will be further elaborated into the discussion of the current condition and demands in the local market of skin care product with whitening effect. The research suggested that the companies under study attempt to increase their competitiveness through product diversification and a focused operational strategy. Taiwan Salt for example started with specialized salt-related skin care products, and later on diversified the product lines to include collagen-related products. On the other hand, S-company capitalized on the unique demand for whitening products in the Asian market by orienting the product innovations with whitening and freckle-control effects. The company is faced with major threats of potential leak of production knowledge and counterfeit products. Due to the significant reduction of tariff, imported cosmetics from Europe and North America are increasing popular in the local market. Under the joint impact of decreased effectiveness of the traditional distribution channels, and change in consumer preference, brand diversification and distribution through multiple channels will be the future trends for survival. To succeed in the cosmetics industry, local companies must be dedicated to establishing new brands and promoting the brand recognition, and innovating new formula (i.e. skin care products with Chinese herbal medicine and natural herbal essences). In turn, to constitute a constructive persuasion for profitability in this industry, government would have to establish a GMP legislation system specialized for cosmetics manufacturing to improve the competitiveness of the local companies.

The study is to summarize the characteristic, present situation and future trend of magnesium industry. Through the analysis of industrial structure, we can understand the growth level of magnesium die casting market in Asia is better than other regions in the world. Especially the 3C industries in Taiwan and Japan, are the most fast-developing ones of magnesium. By means of the analysis of ¡§five forces¡¨ and SWOT of domestic magnesium industry, and comparison with Japanese industry and many references, we can find the KSF (Key Successful Factors) of Taiwan magnesium industry. In the case study of Catcher's company, we can find out how it successfully apply its core resources and retain its competitive niche by analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of competitive factors, and understanding how to use hyper-competition operation model. The industrial circumstances change rapidly, it is importance to fully grasp favorable terms of corporate competition, and to develop advantageous strategies by integrating the prospects of domestic and foreign industries. For the construction of a strongly competitive leader company of magnesium industries, it is essential to own the critical techniques of magnesium and establish the good relationship with customers. From the study, we find that Catcher Co., Ltd. can forecast the customers¡¦ future needs and operate in coordination with them to develop the product strategies. Because it can provide the new products earlier than other rivals, and keep good relationship with suppliers, Catcher can manufacture the products at many different production places and satisfy the most needs of customers and occupy higher market share. Reviewing the case in the analysis of management strategies, we can verify the KSF that can fit in with Taiwan magnesium industry. In conclusion, the study suggests five significant items for the Taiwan magnesium industry: 1. Fix on product scope 2. Promotion of research team ability 3. Process techniques and quality stability 4. Mass production capacity and cost down 5. The Cooperation of Magnesium companies

本文旨在以鑽石體系探討台灣晶圓代工產業在發展了30年後，之所以具有國際競爭力各項條件，並在五力模型的分析下，進一步探討台灣晶圓代工產業未來的威脅及具有的優勢。本研究認為，台灣晶圓代工產業具備有鑽石體系中的各項生產因素、需求條件、相關與支援產業以及同業競爭與企業策略等條件，且台灣在發展晶圓代工產業的初期，政府扮演相當重要的要角，是推動這30年來晶圓代工產業蓬勃發展的重要原因。而這台灣獨創的專業晶圓代工模式也因為在國際分工需求下，產生其效益，並帶給台灣半導體上下游產業的垂直分工發展並使半導體產業聚落形成。 另一方面，在以五力模型中的各項威脅因素分析時，發現在同業競爭、供應商以及顧客的各項因素中，其威脅屬於中等程度，並沒有特別具有威脅的一項；而在潛在競爭者的威脅這一部分則更弱了，因為其成本太高以及經營模式和一般整合元件廠商（Integrated Device Manufacturer, IDM）以及記憶體廠商的經營方式不同，使得進入障礙提高；在替代產業的威脅上則是最低的，目前幾乎沒有可以取代晶圓代工產業的產品。故短期間內台灣的晶圓代工產業在國際上具有相當大的優勢。 本研究也針對以上結果綜合提出四個命題。第一、在晶圓代工產業發展初期，政府對鑽石體系中生產因素的策略性協助越多，越容易使其成功；第二、整合性服務與誠信這兩方面表現越佳者，未來越具有競爭力；第三、在供應商、晶圓代工業以及客戶的關係裡，位居買方之產業其轉換成本高；第四、未來唯有資本雄厚的整合元件製造廠（IDM）有能力進入該產業。 / The research shows that Taiwan semiconductor pure foundry industry composes of four well-proven completed environment conditions in Porter’s Diamond Model: Factor Conditions, Demand Conditions, Related and Supporting Industries, and Firm Strategy, Structure, and Rivalry. In addition, the Role of Government, defined as the fifth condition in the model, plays an important role in the early stage. The pure foundry model created by Taiwan also contributes the development of vertical de-integration and the formation of semiconductor cluster. Meanwhile, Five-Force Model is used to analyze the threats of Taiwan semiconductor pure foundry industry, which shows the threat from rivalry among existing competitors, suppliers and buyers is moderate. The threat of new entrants is low, and the threat of substitute products or services is insignificant. In summary, Taiwan semiconductor pure foundry industry still has strong competitive adventages in the near future. The research also provides four propositions. First, the more the government provides assistance to the factor conditions in the early stage, the easier the foundry industry will be successful. Second, the better the integrated services and the higher integrity a company could offer, the more competitive the company will be. Third, in the relationship of supplier, foundry and customer, the roles of buyer have higher switching cost. Fourth, the Integrated Device Manufacturer (IDM) companies with sufficient capital are the only type of companies could enter this industry in the future.

The main purpose of this study is to focus on Korean outward foreign direct investment (FDI) in the automotive industry of the Czech and Slovak Republic, and to analyze consequences of Hyundai Motors investment for the Czech national economy. In doing so, this study is divided into the three parts. First theoretical part is concentrated on examination of current trend of FDI flows, its impact on developing and host countries, and theories and models of FDI. Second part is focused on analysis of consequences of investment policy generally. Final part is analyzing Korean, Slovak and Czech automotive industry and the impact of Hyundai Motor Company investment decision for the Czech Republic

Porter¡¦s (1990) Four Stages of National Competitive Development are: factor-driven, investment-driven, innovation-driven and wealth-driven. At last stage, the drivers of social development come from the desire to upgrade living quality and pursue the goal of entertainment, leisure, enjoyment, and beauty. In the background, every country begins to emphasize on knowledge economics and creative economics. As well as Taiwan, government brings up two tern plan of culture and creative industries. The first tern stresses on promoting artistic appreciation to enrich the facilities of industrial park. Next, the second tern accents on combinations from different business sectors/fields and culture clusters. Five greatest of culture and creative parks always at the stage of drawing land ownership and building hardware infrastructures in five years. Hwa Shun Cultural and Creative Industrial Park is set on the golden area in Taipei and finally bidden the fifteen-year ownership of ROT (Refurbish-Operate-Transfer) by Taiwan Culture and Creative Company and introduced to the business model. Be the first mover of culture an d creative parks in Taiwan, the experiences of Hwa Shun is definitely important no matter It would success or lose. In this essay, the writer trys to modify Porter¡¦s diamond model(1996,1999) according to the characteristic of culture and creative industries, and pick the Beijing 798 Artistic Village, and Korea Paju Bookcity plus Heiry Artistic Village as the success case to discuss the essential elements of culture and creative clusters. Finally benchmarks the key points to Hwa Shun, and discusses the role of government and the problem of promoting culture and creative industrials in Taiwan. Above all, this essay indicates the interaction between the core of creation and environment, plus the good corporate situation between creative workers and A-style talent are the most important cluster factors. To go a step further, it needs lot of fund and infrastructures to become a industry, in the meantime, how to set up a good evaluated system to inject fund into culture and creative industries through accumulated knowledge is a key point. Otherwise, mass media is other culture and creative industries¡¦ channel, it always has a long and complicated supply chain, and an integrated supply chain can reduce cost effectively and encourage knowledge circulation through cluster effect, therefore be the one that government can nurture strenuously. In demand part, this essay based on three factors of artistic appreciation including culture participation, culture opportunity, and culture consumption to analysis consumers, according to this view, mass population are easier possess capacity to be engaged in culture campaign and really result in consumption. A proper feedback system and platform would benefit cash and resources inflow and support more creative works in experiment step keep creating, and furthermore provide excellent products by means of A-style peoples¡¦ cooperation, finally gain the mass population¡¦s identification and increase culture participation and culture consumption.