This thesis gives you an introduction to rewarding conversations and a set of guidelines for reaching them more easily. I have found that there is an interest for having rewarding conversations with strangers. In a number of experiments I have tested a variation of arranged meetings between strangers aiming at creating rewarding conversations. This study have shown that more participants reaching rewarding conversations in a private meeting in contrast to a space where several conversations takes place. Several experiments has confirmed that there is an interest for listening to other people’s rewarding conversations and that they prefer longer, but edited conversations. By studying the experience of listing to a conversation I found that the understanding of what we hear will be different for everyone, down to the level of a specific word. Similarly the understanding of what you hear will change depended on if you are listening alone or with other people, which means that the surrounding situation affect what you perceive. It is still possible to recognise a general quality despite of subjective preferences. Based on the findings I have created a design proposal, a website whose goal is to encourage rewarding conversations through allowing to arranging and spreading them.

本論文共一冊，約有四萬餘字，分六章廿四節。 第一章導論說明本研究的問題及目的，建立之架構。第二章文獻探討，首先個別探討 生命週期及經營策略之文獻內容及研究方法，然後加以整合。第三章為研究方法，說 明本文為一縱貫式調查之描述性研究，並界定變數之操作定義。第四章企業生命週期 與經營策略演變之關係，先作我國企業生命週期之分析，再驗證其採用之經營策略。 第五章績優與績劣企業經營策略之探討，查驗不同績效之企業，其策略之差異及其影 響因素。第六章結論，提出本論文實證結果，並加以說明

Graduate school has been a time of travel through experimentation. The journey has almost always been a search for materials and sources that match my need for working with the self-referential narrative within the framework of a process. Repeatedly, I would venture out and turn back, only to venture out again, packed with new materials and image sources, in search of a complete process. In retrospect, there have been no dead ends, only quenched curiosities that sometimes cleanly, often clumsily, lead one to the other. What is left is a series of explorations from which I can pluck similarities, clues to my core interests and methods. In the end, I believe I have found a place of clarity, where interests and process converge.