¡@With the increasing growth of Asia market, most of well-known multinational corpo -ration have respectively extended their business to and weight their investment in Taiwan area. Accordingly, Taiwan and Asia enterprises themselves need needs to innovate and change repeatedly so as to improve their competitive ability. Taiwan is in a transient stage from ¡§manufacture orientation¡¨ to ¡§marketing orientation¡¨, now will change to ¡§innovation orientation¡¨. Therefore, it is a significant subject for Taiwan enterprises, especially for which intend to have international business, to apply domestic and overseas management theories and experiences to the characteristics of the enterprises themselves so as to develop a new management mode. ¡@After reviewing and organizing related domestic and overseas studies and documents, we will do discussion with five aspects including strategy, organization, reward, technology and marketing. We will further discuss and analyze, by case study, the development of innovation and reformation in a company and show the results caused thereby. We generalize a study conclusion according to the collected data, documents and contents of a case interview. In this study conclusion, it can be understood that a parent company should give its subsidiary company appropriate autonomies and timely changes in management style while the subsidiary company keeps on growing, and that an enterprise should make clear its market position, core specialty and main target, improve internal efficiencies (e.g. enterprise resource planning, knowledge management, innovation management, supply chain manage -ment and so on) by introducing new technologies, encourage employees to learn and to innovate more as well as adopt diverse salary system for employee performance. Since enterprises nowadays need to face the rapid changes of science and technology, diversified markets and competitive environments,the case will keep moving forward to the business objectives which is predetermined by its organization. ¡@Based on the case findings, an enterprise intends to keep a longer business, overtake competitors and create competitive advantage for becoming a top one, it innovate and change repeatedly and keep moving forward to the business objectives which is predetermined by its organization. which all are good management modes for current enterprises to survive, grow and confront the market changes.

Regulators only require banks to manage their short-term exchange rate risk stringently. A possible reason is that the prevailing capital-market methodology cannot determine the long-term exchange rate risk. Using the real performance of operating incomes, this paper investigates the impact of fluctuating foreign currencies on the values of Taiwanese banking institutions, and decomposes the overall exchange rate risk into short-term and long-term components. We not only overcome the deficiency of prior studies that have limited success in detecting significant currency exposure, but also measure correct economic exposure that firms are confronted with. Comparing with the capital market approach, we find the evidence of the relative strength of cash flows to detect currency exposure. After controlling for the impact of interest rates, we find that, over the time period examined, 61.54% of the sample firms have a significant currency exposure, which is larger than those documented by prior research. Our result also shows that the existence of significant long-term exchange rate risk is prevalent among Taiwanese banking institutions. Furthermore, US dollar (the currency of a nation which is Taiwan¡¦s largest exporting country) has an opposite effect as opposed to Japanese Yen (the currency of a nation which is Taiwan¡¦s largest importing partner). Our results have policy implications that banking institutions should manage long-term currency exposure.

Recently for over 20 years, the scholar who studies multinational corporation study the focus to move from MNC headquarter to MNC subsidiaries gradually, make the research about subsidiary's management increase gradually. And the autonomy is a subject that is worth studying among them, for MNCs, the subsidiary¡¦s autonomy is more and more important. Supports MNC headquarter and carries out the global strategies are subsidiary¡¦s mission. But with the difference of the control system of MNC, with the difference of the fierce change degree of environment, will cause the difference of subsidiary¡¦s autonomy. Try to find out the factor influencing autonomy from Taiwan and mainland subsidiary in this research. This research studies with four factors to find out which variable affect the extent of subsidiary¡¦s autonomy: First, how the subsidiary manager¡¦s traits influence on MNC subsidiary¡¦s autonomy; Second, how the MNC headquarters¡¦ traits influence on MNC subsidiary¡¦s autonomy; Third, how the environmental traits influence on MNC subsidiary¡¦s autonomy; Fourth, how the MNC subsidiary¡¦s traits influence on MNC subsidiary¡¦s autonomy. This research takes the measure of case study by interview. The case company sets up subsidiaries in Taiwan and mainland, and for the high-order executive of the interview case company. Originally discover the headquarter exerts a tremendous influence, nearly determine the extent of subsidiary¡¦s autonomy. And subsidiary manager's great ambition is also an important influence factor. In addition, discover that subsidiary's autonomy is dynamic equilibrium, result of compromise, and subsidiary¡¦s autonomy changes like a cycle.

This research is in terms of the multi-national corporation (MNCs) that is to understand the investment and the overall arrangement of the world, Hong Kong, and Taiwan¡¦s garment marketing in Mainland China. Furthermore, to go deep into how the transnational garment will impact on the China government. Due to the debut of China-US textiles trade war issue in 2005, now we are about to analyze the triangle relationships among the transnational garment and Sino-America governments in textile trade negotiation, so to the Chinese government¡¦s textile industrial policies and development goal under the competition and changing of the international garment marketing after entering WTO. At the mean time, this paper studies in quota system of garment, and also assess to the argument of abolishing quota system from WTO recently. Hence to analyze the internal and external factors such like the negotiation to the garment and textile¡¦s quota between China and US government in 2005. With those international and domestic factors eventually predicts the impact on transnational garment.

Drawing insights from strategic management and international business literature, the present study develops an integrated model to explain the competitive actions between multinational firms in a global context. Accordingly, two research questions are addressed: What key factors explain the competitive actions of multinational firms? What key factors moderate the competitive tensions experienced by different pairs of multinational firms? Using structured content analysis to identify competitive actions, the empirical findings of the present study suggest that subsidiary control, MNE size, national culture, government regulations and multimarket contact are all likely to exert important impact on a multinational firm's motivation and capability to compete and therefore influence its competitive aggressiveness in foreign markets.

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Thesis (MProjectManagement)--University of South Australia, 2007.

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / Changing the behaviour of firms to take environmental concerns into account is seen as unlikely without effective regulations. However, corporations are increasingly keen to represent themselves as ‘green’, including those in the world’s largest manufacturing sector: the car industry. Given rising concern for the environment and environmental sustainability since the 1990s this thesis asks: what motivates car firms to actually make environmental commitments? Answering this question has implications for whether these commitments are ‘real’ and if so whether they are occurring in response to material factors (e.g. state regulations and consumer demand) versus normative factors (e.g. social attitudes and internal company strategies). In order to answer it, the thesis applies the insights of the institutional varieties of capitalism approach to the German, United States and Japanese car industries, and specific firms within them, in respect of the environmental issue of climate change from 1990 to 2004. Empirical national data is analysed, as well the environmental reporting of individual firms and interviews with key personnel. The main findings are that what leads the car industry to see environmental issues as central to their business interests hinges on the impact of differing national institutional factors. Specifically, it is a matter of whether firms have a liberal market economy (LME) as their home base, in the case of US firms, or a coordinated market economy (CME) as their home base, in the case of German and Japanese firms. US car firms react more to the material imperatives of consumer demand and state regulations. German and Japanese firms are more mindful of normative factors for their initiatives, such as social attitudes (especially for German firms) and internal company strategies (especially for Japanese firms). They have more of a partnership approach with government. Therefore, car firms have very distinct ‘lenses’ through which they see the environmental performance of the cars they produce. As such, the thesis concludes that the variety of capitalism of nations has implications not just for the type of products that economic actors such as car firms produce, and the competitive advantages they develop, but also the way they address related issues arising as a result of their activities, including environmental issues.

Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögsk., 2003.

Diss. Göteborg : University, 2004. / Härtill 6 appendix.