The thesis uses the case study of software industry development to investigate the role of the state, relationship with the private sectors, and its transformation. Besides, This paper adopts Peter Evans¡¦ ¡§embedded autonomy¡¨ and Linda Weiss¡¦s ¡§governed interdependence theory¡¨ to explain these situations. As far as Taiwan, the state helped develop software industry after 1980s. At that time, there was no software programming or service company in Taiwan. Like the other strategy industry, the state set up the pilot agency, III, to support software industry, but the state didn¡¦t intervene in production. The unique character of software industrial development has been its synchronized globalization among developed and developing world. To out-compete among others in software industry is quite a gap for Taiwan. Besides, Taiwan¡¦s labor cost is higher then India and Mainland China. So, Taiwan has no chance to get the low-level business. In the analysis, the state¡¦s e-government budget didn¡¦t benefit to software industry. The state have no obvious network with society, have no control force to software private sectors, and the state¡¦s capacity was be doubted. So the state only just plays a ¡§husbandry¡¨ ideal-type.

In the development of the global software industry, what kind of development trend can we observe? Which kind of role does Microsoft act in the development of the global software industry? On the other hand, how to develop the software industry in China? What is the development procedure of the Chinese software industry? This paper concentrates on studying the relationship between Microsoft and China. After analyzing the entry strategy and management tactics of Microsoft, we can understand the delicate relation between Microsoft and Chinese government. And we may realize, in addition, why China does need Microsoft. How does China receive more advanced technologies through the competition between the software manufacturers? Because Microsoft has offered more investment and assistance, China will have the capabilities to develop its own software industry. In order to get more long-term development in China, Microsoft also needs to develop the good relations with Chinese government, from central government to the local governments, and utilizes these relations; Microsoft may obtain more favorable development chance in China.

Abstract Ever since the early 90¡¦s the global software market has been growing at a rapid speed, even faster than that of the hardware market. Along with the development of Internet and e-commerce, the demands for software have been continuously on the rise. The Taiwan software industry has to improve the quality of its software products in order to compete in the international IT arena. The present best option is for the Taiwanese software firms to achieve the Software Engineering Institute¡¦s Capability Maturity Model certification. This study shows that the obstacles Taiwanese software firms in adopting Capability Maturity Model can be categorized into three main factors: human resources, environment, and technology. Therefore, the software industry must start solving these issues to improve quality and Subsequently attain international standard.

This research targeted on the design engineers of software industry and information/electric industries. The effects of engineer¡¦s money ethics conception on the organizational and professional commitments have been investigated in this research by the method of spot sampling. In the spot sampling process, there were 235 effective samples obtained out of 669 bulk samples. The descriptive statistics analysis, the reliability analysis, the Pearson analysis, and the blocked regression analysis for the effective samples were conducted by SPSS statistics software and resulted in the following conclusions: 1. The money ethics conception of engineer appears the significant positive relationship on the organizational identification. It means that the higher the engineer is proud of his earning power, the greater the engineer will tell others the company he work for. 2. The money ethics conception of engineer appears the significant positive relationship on the organizational involvement. It means that the higher the engineer is proud of his earning power, the greater the engineer will help company for continuous improvement and success. 3. The money ethics conception of engineer appears no significant relationship on the retention commitment. It is difficult to predict the retention commitment of engineer in terms of their money ethics conception. 4. The money ethics and saving conception of engineer appears the significant positive relationship on the professional identification. It reveals that the higher the engineer is proud of his earning power and saving willingness, the greater the engineer will tell others the field he work for. 5. The money ethics conception of engineer appears the significant positive relationship on the professional involvement. It also reveals that the higher the engineer is proud of his earning power, the greater the engineer will dedicate to enhance his own professional capability. 6. The life happiness of engineer appears the significant negative relationship on the professional involvement. The engineer with lower money expectancy and better life happiness would highly like to keep on the original field and wouldn¡¦t change job to another field

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