As we enter into a high energy consumption era, people start taking notice of a simple electronic device called Light Emitting Diode (LED). A continuous rise of crude oil price in global markets and the proposal of WEEE and RoHS by European Union, ¡§energy efficient¡¨ and ¡§environmental friendly¡¨ are becoming more and more important, which leads to the attention of LED. It¡¦s one of the so called ¡§green¡¨ light emitting sources and will be the market¡¦s mainstream in near future. Therefore, LED will become another star product after the measurement of the IC and TFT-LCD industries. Taiwan has been developing LED for over 30 years and has developed a well rounded market structure. Facing huge demand by application such as computer monitor backlight, car lighting, and daily lighting appliance, Taiwanese LED supplier already responded by adjusting their market strategy and increasing their product quality. Many companies began to involve the upstream epitaxial techniques and products. How to survive through well-down strategy development is a key for these upstream suppliers. The purpose of this study is to understand how a new company to build competitive advantage through the case study of the U company. When the U company was found, it uses a different production mode to overcome many problems from traditional production modes. The U company¡¦s strategies lets it could develop fast, provide stable quality products, and manufacture with lost cost. Through this case study, this study wants to shed some light to other people who have interests in the LED industry.

This study flows from fundamentals by describing the raison d'etre of international competition policy: how competition law, interacts with trade policy and why that interaction has become a critical concern that should be addressed in an international cooperative framework. From this observation, this thesis concludes that policy initiatives to establish international substantive competition rules are both desirable and feasible. They are desirable because they would avoid international trade disputes deriving from conflicting implementations of trade and competition policies. They are feasible trough the application of a methodology which balances efficiency, fairness and social objectives. Such a methodology is proposed by the author for the determination of common substantive competition rules. / This set of proposals identifies changes that would be acceptable to most national participants in world trade and classifies trade practices into three categories: First, the trade practices prohibited per se, for which international standards can be reached in a short time; second, the trade practices examined under a rule-of-reason approach for which some common standards seem obtainable only in a mid-term frame given the existing divergent antitrust philosophies; third, international mergers and antidumping laws for which, given the strong industrial policy considerations, international substantive rules are not likely to emerge in the foreseeable future. / Finally, as practical illustration, this thesis explores the long-run potential for replacing anti-competitive aspects of current antidumping laws with more efficient and more equitable competition-policy safeguards. The substitution of the international price discrimination standard commonly applied in antidumping review by the predatory pricing standard favoured under antitrust investigations can be achieved through the introduction of two criteria: determination of the "impact on the domestic economy, as a whole" and calculation of the variable cost standard.

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This thesis studies the influence of horizontal competition on supply chain performance. Unlike most of the existing literature which focuses on horizontal competition between echelon levels, we look at both the supply chain and the individual company??s performance with the presence of supply chain to supply chain competition. Specifically, this thesis is composed of three individual research papers. The first paper deals with chain-to-chain horizontal competition and considers price competition among an arbitrary number of supply chains by comparing two cases. In the first case each supply chain is vertically integrated, while in the second, decentralised, case the manufacturers and retailers act independently. We explore the effect of varying the level of price competition on the profitts of the industry participants and demonstrate the important role played by the spread of underlying market shares. The coefficient of variation of these market shares determines whether decentralised supply chains can outperform integrated supply chains with an appropriate level of competition. The second and third papers focus on in-chain horizontal competition with capacity constraints. In the second paper, we look at a supply chain with one manufacturer and two downstream retailers. Based on total capacity available, the manufacturer needs to find ways to best use the capacity by determining whether or not to release the capacity information to retailers. The third paper looks at competition in a more complicated supply chain structure. A retailer buys three brands of products from two manufacturers. One manufacturer produces both branded and private label products, and the other one manufactures a branded product only. With our model, we are able to determine the profits of each supply chain agent. At the end of the paper, we use data from the Australian milk industry and discuss a problem in which a manufacturer needs to decide how to allocate capacity between the national brand and the private label when there is a capacity shortage.

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 1990. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-124). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1912. / "A Private edition distributed by the University of Chicago libraries, 1916." "A Trade edition is distributed by the Geo. Banta publishing co., Menasha, Wisconsin." Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1912. / "A Private edition distributed by the University of Chicago libraries, 1916." "A Trade edition is distributed by the Geo. Banta publishing co., Menasha, Wisconsin."

Thesis (doctoral)--Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-300).

Thesis (D.P.A.)--University of Oklahoma, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-180).