Steel industry is highly connected to a lot of industries. In year 2007 Taiwan steel industry is the third industry, after warfer and electronic industry, which achieved hundred billion NTD in total years¡¦s revenue. Taiwaness downstream industries, unlike Japanese and Korean, are mostly owned and managed by small and medium companies. Steel pipe is a long- hollow shaped material, massively adapted in fluid transportation, such as pretrolem, natural gas, water and steam etc. It is also heavily used in mechanic maching and structure engineering. This study focuses on API ERW carbon steel pipe industry in Taiwan. Analysis of pipe manufacture industry strategy is made upon the basis of theories like value chain, competitive strategy and game theory. Moreover, interviews with professionals and specialists are held to collect experiential wisdom regarding management and core competence ability. In another word, theory analyses together with interviews lead to the conclusion of competitive characteristics. Also, illustration of strategic competitiveness forming in CHS provides a practical example. How to evaluate the core competitive ability in Taiwan API ERW carbon steel pipe industry when facing global competition, that depends on every company¡¦s unique global strategy. To sum up, this study describes and analyzes the current state of API ERW carbon steel pipe industry in Taiwan and summits the proposal of competitive strategies by taking CHS as an example.

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.

Human beings always keep seeking for a better life ,our civilization also keeps moving forward grounded on this momentum .Each economic booming implies a new application or technology developed. Liquid crystal was found by a Austrian scientist, F.REINITZER in 1968 .Japanese companies applied it into large scale display started in 90s,which urged us moving into LCD era . In this study, we will discuss the competitive advantage of Taiwanese LCD driver IC industry ,the key component of LCD supply chain . Also we will take Taiwanese LCD driver IC design house-Novatek for example . By using five-forces framework , diamond structure and co-opetition theory ,we will dig out Taiwanese LCD driver IC industry¡¦s competitive advantage and its own position among world market . This study found Taiwanese LCD driver IC industry has competitive advantages of industry cluster ,high competition ,world-class customers ,quality human resources and government¡¦s support . With those advantages , Taiwanese LCD driver IC industry plays an important role of world market . We also propose strategies to Taiwanese LCD driver IC industry based on the result of this study .

Taiwan manufacturer has the cost advantage of manufacture and is famous in the world. Taiwan Electronic Passive Component(E.P.C.) company has the big pressure from those lower labor and land cost countries such as China because the technical entry barrier of passive component is low. Due to this situation, Taiwan passive component company endeavor to develop high-valued product and keep the strong relation with the customer in order to maintain the long-term profitability. Thus, the low-end and mid-end of passive component is occupied by Taiwan passive component company. Meanwhile, Taiwan Passive component company plan to develop high-end of passive component and to get more profit from these niche product. Taiwan subsidiary of international passive component company has the big competitive pressure on it. If Taiwan subsidiary of international passive component company does not take the appropriate strategy, this niche market will be expected to lose in the near future. Based on industry analysis and supplier analysis of Electronic Passive Component(E.P.C.),and case study from Taiwan subsidiary of international passive company, the thesis explored the success experience of competitive advantage from the case research of mainly utilizing The Five Force Analysis Model, Resource-Based View(R.B.V.), and SWOT Analysis. The suggestion were conclude as followed. 1.To Taiwan E.P.C. industry: To have the strong relation with each Design-Center of Japan, America, and Europe; to get the advantage of key material and manufacture process; to keep improving quality management. 2.To the research firm: To differentiate professional and technical support service; provide just-in-time delivery; to make the low-end product in the lower land and labor cost country.

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.

Recently, as a result of people around the world to actively encourage the creation of new businesses, so that the field of entrepreneurship research has become a field of study of foreign enterprises, the fastest growing part. In particular, Taiwan is now suffering because of the financial turmoil triggered by the economic recession crisis, global competition and rapidly changing industrial structure, but also to the urgent need to develop new industries to provide more employment opportunities. And as a result of the rise of emerging markets, a substantial increase in demand for the material, particularly in the industrial development of the oil must be used is in great demand, resulting in global crude oil stocks continued to decline. In addition, the sharp increase in carbon dioxide emissions, causing global warming, the greenhouse effect serious environmental problems are also plaguing the world, it is "the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's Kyoto Protocol," signed. Under the influence of many factors in the world are looking into the use of resources in alternative energy and energy-efficient power-saving environmental protection products, including solar industry and light-emitting diode (LED) industry the most popular, so many of the new company set up R & D and production of related products. In this study, the production of LED Wafer and Chip professional manufacturer G company for the study, using SWOT Analysis, Five Forces analysis, expert interviews as research methods, analysis of LED current industry conditions and to explore the company's first business process and key success factors, and then find out the case, how can manufacturers in the highly competitive environment, the establishment of a unique business advantage to the follow-up for people wishing to enter the LED reference industrial companies. The case study found that the G company success and have the following six key factors: (1) business and industry pre-market assessment of the right; (2) a clear position; (3) product differentiation (niche products); (4) has a strong start-up team; (5) personality traits entrepreneurs; (6) of prudent financial control, and the scholars referred to the key factors of success in good agreement, therefore, present or future intention to enter the LED after industry into the role of manufacturers with a reference indicator .

<p>In this study 170 Swedish University students participated and evaluated themselves on Subjective well-being with affect balance measured both in frequency and in intensity, and on the five-factor personality factors. The results clearly indicate that intense positive emotions and intense negative emotions correlate positively, and that women experience emotions more intensely than men. Further, measuring affect balance in frequency leads to gender differences in happiness while intensity affect balance does not. Neuroticism (inverted) and extraversion are both strong predictors of happiness, but when using frequent affect-balance, neuroticism evidently stands out as the better of the two. Extraversion and to some extent neuroticism are intensifying people’s emotions. The findings suggest future research to distinguish between intense and frequent affects when calculating Subjective well-being.</p>

<p>Bachelor thesis in Logistics Management, School of Management and Economics, Växjö University, EKL 361, Spring 2006-05-24</p><p>Authors: Jesper Ericsson, Olov Nordgren, Henrik Frick</p><p>Tutor: Åsa Gustafsson/ Helena Forslund</p><p>Examiner: Helena Forslund</p><p>Title: Road cabotage in the Swedish haulage industry</p><p>Author supplied keywords: Transportation, European Union, Haulage Company, Road Cabotage, Five Forces Model and Generic Strategies.</p><p>Background: In 1998 the European Union introduced the concept of free road cabotage. The concept implies that haulers from different Member States are allowed to perform domestic transportation in another Member State as long as it is conducted on a temporary basis. The introduction of cabotage has given rise to new competitive conditions on domestic markets within the European Union. Not all haulage companies within the European Union have the same competitive prerequisites. Swedish haulers have a high cost structure in comparison with foreign haulers and therefore it is interesting to see how they are affected by cabotage.</p><p>Research Questions:</p><p>o How do Swedish haulers perceive cabotage in their industry and how do they manage it today?</p><p>o Which improvements can be achieved strategically to sustain and/or improve Swedish haulers’ competitive situation towards foreign haulers?</p><p>Purpose: The objective of this bachelor thesis is to investigate how Swedish haulers’ are affected by competition concerning road cabotage. Depending on how they are affected by road cabotage we also intend to present strategic improvements that can sustain and/or improve their competitive ability.</p><p>Methodology: Survey on three haulage companies</p><p>Theoretical Framework: For our first research question we have chosen to present the concept of cabotage to enlighten readers. To be able to understand what characterises the Swedish haulage industry we have chosen Porter’s Five Forces Model as a foundation. The results from the Five Forces Model are used as inputs to the theories concerning Porter’s generic strategy.</p><p>Conclusions: Through this bachelor thesis we have concluded that Swedish haulers are in different ways affected by road cabotage. Depending on their type of business, they are more or less affected by cabotage. Through differentiation Swedish haulers can sustain and improve their competitive situation. The differentiation should be focused on issues regarding markets, customers, and specific service characteristics that are difficult for foreign competitors to imitate.</p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-134). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-134). Also available on the Internet.