This thesis presents an alternate career path for technical communicators in the area of content marketing and expands on the ethical and goal-related issues associated with a career change to a marketing-focused role. Many of the skills necessary for technical communication are transferable to marketing communication roles; however, a successful career change requires that technical communicators understand how the ethical values and goals of marketing professionals can differ from those of technical communicators. Through a detailed literature review and autoethnographic study, this thesis discusses the performance goals of marketing professionals to determine how these clash with those of technical communicators. This study also discusses the ethical values of technical communicators and marketing professionals, and how these values are shaped by their unique job functions. The overall goal is to determine how this affects the technical communicator working with content marketing. After combining the data available in the literature and the data gathered from the autoethnographic study, this study suggests that due to the differing job functions and training received by technical communicators and marketing professionals, ethically charged situations and ethically questionable practices are likely to be viewed under different perspectives by each professional. This can lead to vastly different perspectives on a particular situation and result in the two groups having vastly different ideas in regard to how ethical-decision making should proceed.

自八O年代以後，台灣半導體通路產業即邁入了激烈的競爭時代。眾多高同質性的業者，相互競奪上游產品線的代理權，以及下游買者市場的交易權；業者的生存契機，主要來自於提供上、下游業者間進行商業交換的平台。因此，此一平台所能提昇的交換效率，及其處理跨組織間交換成本的能力，乃成為不容忽視的課題。半導體通路業為台灣資訊工業中，歷史悠久且具重要地位的產業；研究瞭解半導體通路產業之價值鏈活動，將有助於台灣半導體通路產業之促進升級。 半導體通路商所從事之價值鏈活動功能，予以分類概有商流、物流、金流、資訊流及技術流等五大項；其中，諸多研究證實——技術支援能力，乃屬半導體通路商之核心競爭力之一。過去有關半導體通路商的研究，大多是由競爭策略、企業資源規劃及整體通路之價值鏈活動等觀點著手，但專注於技術流部分，予以進行4C交換成本態勢分析之探討者，則尚未得見；因此，本研究乃有其創始性。 本研究以台灣地區的半導體通路商為研究對象，期望所做研究結果可供台灣半導體通路業者，做為規劃技術行銷策略之實務參考。本研究屬於質性之探索性研究，經由個案訪談及問卷之初級資料與次級資料的蒐集彙整，並以4C交換成本理論的四個主要變數：外顯單位效益成本、資訊搜尋成本、道德危機成本、專屬陷入成本，進行個案企業之比較分析，並歸納出下列之研究發現與結論： 1. 上游供應商與通路商之技術合作，其對通路商處理交換成本能力的需求排序為：道德危機成本、資訊搜尋成本、專屬陷入成本、外顯單位效益成本。 2. 技術性協力廠商與通路商之技術合作，其對通路商處理交換成本能力的需求排序：道德危機成本、外顯單位效益成本、資訊搜尋成本、專屬陷入成本。 3. 下游系統製造廠商與通路商之技術合作，其對通路商處理交換成本能力的需求為：外顯單位效益成本之功效，高於內隱交換成本之效能。 4. 規模經濟型之半導體通路商，其對下游系統製造商所提供之技術支援服務功能，外顯單位效益成本的優勢，高於內隱交換成本。 5. 利基型之半導體通路商，其對下游系統製造商所提供之技術支援服務功能，內隱交換成本優勢，高於外顯單位效益成本。 6. 經營低技術層次產品之半導體通路商，其對下游系統製造商所提供之技術支援服務功能，外顯單位效益成本的優勢，高於內隱交換成本。 / After the eighth decade, the channel industry of Taiwan semiconductor moved toward serious competition. Many of high similarity company compete with each other in the agency of product line source and the buyer market of OEM customer; the survival opportunity of company is to provide the platform for the exchange between the supplier and customer. Hence, the most critical point is to increase the efficiency and to reduce the exchange cost between the cross-organization in the platform. Semiconductor channel industry is long historical with important position in Taiwan information industry; to investigate and study the semiconductor channel industry will contribute to the research for the upgrade of semiconductor channel industry in Taiwan. The value chain activity of semiconductor channel can be break through into business flow, logistics, financial flow, information flow and technology flow; Among them, technical support ability has been approved to be one of the key competitiveness of the semiconductor channel by many researches. Most of the past researches stood on the views, such as competitive strategy, Enterprise Resource Planning and whole value chain activity, etc., but the point on the 4C exchanges cost co-opetition analysis in the technology flow has not been seen yet. Hence, it’s important for this research. This research is expected to provide the result for the practice reference of the technical marketing strategy to the Taiwan semiconductor channel by focusing on them. This research is belong to the qualitative exploratory research from the data collection of the primary and the secondary information in the interview cases and questionnaires, then to analyze the cases comparatively by the four primary parameters of the 4C exchange cost the cost: the external cost on utility, information searches, morals hazard and hold up asset specificity. Finally, the following important results have been pointed out: 1. The sort of the technical cooperation between the channel and the supplier to the requirement for the channel ability in dealing with exchange cost is: morals hazard, information searches, asset specificity and the external cost on utility. 2. The sort of the technical cooperation between the channel and the independent design house (IDH) to the requirement for the channel ability in dealing with exchange cost is: moral hazard, the external cost on utility, information searches and asset specificity. 3. The technical cooperation between the channel and the system manufacture customer to the requirement for the channel ability in dealing with exchange cost is: the effectiveness of the external cost on utility is higher than that of the inner exchange cost. 4. The technology support service function to the system manufacture customer from the semiconductor channel of the scale economic type is: the advantage of the external cost on utility is higher than that of the inner exchange cost. 5. The technology support service function to the system manufacture customer from the niche type semiconductor channel is: the advantage of the inner exchange cost is higher than that of the external cost on utility. 6. The technology support service function to the system manufacture customer from the semiconductor channel with operating in the low technical level product is: the advantage of the external cost on utility is higher than that of the inner exchange cost.