As Taiwanese performing arts environment changes, some performing arts groups begin to co-operate with business companies and share marketing resources aggressively. On the other hand, since National Culture and Arts Foundation has launched Performing Arts Marketing Platform project in 2006, which has promoted several platforms to co-market with business companies and to gain benefits. However, this business model has not been developed throughly. The purposes of this study are to explore the theories of co-marketing alliances; to understand the influence of the marketing platforms during co-marketing alliances as arts intermediaries; to compare four cases of co-marketing alliances; to modify the co-marketing alliances models and to conclude some suggestions for business companies and Performing Arts Marketing Platforms to improve their cooperation. This study is based on four co-marketing alliances case studies, with observation and in-deep interviews to collect research data. The study concludes that except marketing concern and brand awareness, social responsibility, which helps performing arts organizations to gain more trusts from business companies, becomes another important motivation to form alliances. These motivations affect business companies for choosing their partners, managing the alliances, and evaluating the results. Furthermore, ¡§complementary possibilities¡¨ and ¡§alliance promoters¡¨ are two advantages for Performing Arts Marketing Platforms to built relationships with business companies. Since customers¡¦ cognitions and attitude are not easy to be evaluated, business companies can only measure the outcomes of the alliances through number of consumers, advertisement impression, overall revenue and return questionnaires, which are also difficult to distinguish from normal situations. Therefore, most of the business companies prefer to evaluate the alliance by managers¡¦ subjective judgments. In order to establish a steady alliance, a business company has to familiar with the diversity of performing arts and alternative alliance models beforehand. A Performing Arts Marketing Platform has to consider the needs of business companies, performing arts organizations and itself. The study also suggests a Performing Arts Marketing Platform should increase its advantages and emphasize equal partnerships. It can connect the resource from all the performing arts organizations it helps, and enhance alliance promoter¡¦s professional ability.

This study analyzes 197 companies formed through strategic alliance during the period 1995-2004. There are 107 samples of technological strategic alliance and 90 samples of marketing strategic alliance. The empirical methodology used in this research is the event study approach, which assesses the value implications of the announcement of forming strategic alliance. This study then examines relationships between abnormal returns and relative scale of strategic alliances partners, and profitability of companies through regression analysis to find the following results: 1. The announcement will bring significantly positive abnormal return to the company. 2. Abnormal returns of technological alliance are greater than that of marketing alliance announcements. 3. There is no significant relationship between relative sizes of partners and abnormal returns. Accumulative abnormal returns of relatively larger size partner are higher than relatively smaller size partners. Relatively larger partners in technological alliances gain more benefits in a strategic alliance. 4. The profitability of firms entering strategic alliances is negatively correlated with abnormal returns attributable to alliance announcements. Such a negative correlation is greater for marketing alliances than for technological alliances.

本研究從產品( 以產品的特質為研究變數 )、市場( 以外界環境的不確定 性為研究變數 )以及廠商( 以廠商資源及廠商競爭策略優勢考慮 )三大因 素以定性分析台灣自行車運用行銷合作進入市場的可行性與穩定性，其中 使用的理論為交易成本理論、資源依賴理論以及企業競爭策略理論。本研 究並嘗試在了解其中的影響機制之後，能夠為國內廠商往後在進行類似行 銷合作之時有更好的建議。在產品因素方面，由於各零件產品存在強烈互 補性，而且自行車的各種子系統各零件產品表現息息相關，所以在技術上 也存在互相依賴的關係，進而造成交易資產的特質性，依交易成本理論， 此種交易資產特質性造成廠商之交易成本；另一方面從市場因素來看，由 於環境的不確定性也會造成廠商的交易成本。適中的交易成本則容易形成 聯盟。本研究藉由個案分析以了解交易成本對於行銷合作的可行性與穩定 性之影響。在廠商資源因素方面，若廠商間存在重要資源依賴關係或此種 資源依賴關係呈現對稱性時，則廠商以行銷合作進入市場較具可行性與穩 定性；在廠商策略考慮因素方面，廠商可以從行銷合作獲得的策略愈大或 是合作廠商從行銷合作之中所獲得的策略優勢呈對稱性時，則廠商以行銷 合作進入市場也較具可行性與穩定性。本文最大的貢獻在於嘗試以交易成 本理論解釋自行車業界的行銷合作行為；但也由於偏重於交易成本理論， 致使部分合作現象無法充分獲得解釋。