Abstract As we know, Taiwan¡¦s software and system application industries are facing severe challenge and great impact under current worldwide crisis and depression. However, the know-how IC design companies became main supporters of Taiwan IC industry already. In view of this, those high-tech IC design houses must surpass others in their organization and management. This research report tried to summarize those deeds to benefit others. The sponsors of this research are Etrend Electronics and Himax Technologies, which based on Tainan Science Park. Entrend Electronics is focus on DSP IC design, and Himax is producer of TFT-LCD component.This study will separate three sub-reports to describe following subjects: company¡¦s organization, company¡¦s goal and strategy, and core technology and product development. Besides,this study will also discuss the difference between those two companies from two points of view: why setup IC design house and the variance of technical strategy. This study reveals following new discoveries: 1. the sponsors are new tech followers, 2. The sponsors gain new tech via internal R/D, 3. Parent company or business group is userful for acquiring technology, 4. Patent is a way to protect core technology, but it is not best way, 5. HR will effect technical organization, 6. Quick market¡¦s occupation and product variance are company¡¦s product strategy, 7. No sponsors emphasize knowledge management. Finally, based on the research findings, this study proposes conclusions and suggestions for managers or entrepreneurs in the directions of strategy planning and decision-making.

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This dissertation investigates three sets of research questions. First, how can partner selection be used as a mechanism to minimize R&D alliance participants’ concerns about knowledge leakage? And what is the nature of the relationship among partner selection and two previously-studied protection mechanisms – governance structure and alliance scope? Extending this research question to the international context, the second set of research questions asks how international R&D alliances differ from their domestic counterparts in partner selection to protect their participants’ valuable knowledge, and how different types of international R&D alliances vary in this regard. Distinguishing bilateral from multilateral R&D alliances, this dissertation examines a third set of questions about how multilateral R&D alliances differ from bilateral ones in partner selection for the purpose of protecting participants’ technological assets. Hypotheses are proposed and tested with a sample of 2,185 R&D alliances involving companies in high technology industries. Results indicate that the more radical the innovation an R&D alliance intends to develop, the more likely the alliance will be formed between Friends than Strangers. However, under the same situation, firms are less likely to select Acquaintances than Strangers. A substitution effect was detected among partner selection, governance structure, and alliance scope used by firms to protect their valuable technological assets from being appropriated in R&D alliances. In addition, no empirical support was found for different partner selection preferences for firms forming domestic R&D alliances versus international R&D alliances. However, results show that firms, when forming trinational R&D alliances and/or traditional international R&D alliances, are more likely to select their prior partners than when forming cross-nation domestic R&D alliances. Moreover, this study shows that when an R&D alliance is formed by multiple companies, partner firms are more likely to be prior partners. I argue that concerns about knowledge leakage explain this result.

The R&D Alliance was developed as the third strategic option to face the environment in a rapid change world. Based on the operating mechanism of the R&D Alliance, the beneficial results such as resource gathering, development risk and capital dropping will be achieved. However, when all members in the R&D Alliance mutually cooperate for the given benefits and targets, another question about keeping the own characteristics risen and need to further reconsider it. Therefore, the connective patterns between members play an important role in determining whether these operations will be successful, especially for the Chinese-major communities which have more obvious interference hiding in relational capital. The present study focuses on pattern of the R&D Alliance from the view of the relational capital. Adopting the individual case to study two R&D Alliances related with the juridical-person institutions is the main framework of this research and the results are analyzed from the three subcomponents in the relational capital that are trust, friendship and respect. Conclusions are drawn as follows: 1.Impacts of the trust relationship in the R&D alliance: members were constrained by the long-run contact, mutual cooperation experience and the formal contract (e.g. cooperation signatures or nondisclosure agreements) to reduce member suspicions and lead the positive Impact to the R&D alliance. 2.Impacts of the friendship in the R&D alliance: through the way of the frequent interaction, the beneficial receptions, and the explicit cooperative objectives, a conflict or a distant feeling between each others will be reduced, instead of increasing communication or rapidly uniting members to smoothly work the alliance. 3.Impacts of the respect in the R&D alliance: through the way of the good-will interactions, suppressing the opportunistic behaviors, globally adopting the opinions, predicting the next move about members, regulations in the contracts as well as self-constraints, the harmonics and the advantages existed in the members will be benefited for the development of the R&D alliance. 4.Impacts of the achievements in the R&D alliance: In the operating process, the partnership in the R&D alliance achieved the goals by means of the well, routine and miscellaneous communications, an explicit objective management, and the good interactions.

<p>Background</p><p>Strategic alliances have become increasingly popular within the business world, they can be seen as a way to improve the total output of the firm. Over the last 10 years, the industry endured trying times, the most notable being the events of September 11, 2001. That event drastically changed airline traveling all across the world. It also showed the importance of collaborations in order to stay competitive. Star Alliance began in 1997 and has since then grown into</p><p>the world’s largest airline alliance with a total market share of 25.1%.</p><p>Purpose</p><p>The raison d’être of this study is to quantify and analyze the augmentation of load factors over time, in terms of distribution, as they pertain to capacity performance of allied carriers within Star Alliance.</p><p>Method</p><p>In order to fulfill the purpose, a deductive approach to the research has been taken. Furthermore, due to the nature of the data, a quantitative approach has been used within. Two hypotheses will be stated and several research questions as well.</p><p>Result</p><p>It can be clearly seen that distribution of load factors has transformed during the years. There is a shift in both the skewness and the kurtosis of the distributions that can be seen when examining the frequency distribution charts. The kurtosis increases and the skew decreases, measures that are positive for the airlines, while the anomalies of 0% and 100% load factor have remained stable throughout the years. A general increase in the average load factors has also been seen.</p><p>Conclusion</p><p>By analyzing the empirical findings, it is clear that the load factor of the allied members has increased and that the proportion of the denied boardings decreased in relation to the average load factor. This means that the alternative hypothesis was accepted in the first hypothesis and that the second alternative hypothesis was accepted in the second hypothesis. The research also reveals a generally increased mean which together with the changes in the skew and kurtosis lead to an acceptance of the beta distribution. Furthermore, higher load factors were shown to have a strong correlation with the increase in efficiency and decrease in overselling.</p>

Identities should be established independent of limitations by organization or application. We consider mobile and/or remote users and applications. Essential parts are centralized or distributed identity management systems. / Workshop "Netz- und Service-Infrastrukturen" Wünschenswert ist die Gültigkeit von Identitäten über Organisations- bzw. Applikationsgrenzen hinweg. Dabei werden mobile/entfernte Nutzer und Anwendungen betrachtet. Kernstück bilden zentrale oder verteilte Identitätsverwaltungen.

Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Theologische Fakultät--Vallendar--Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule, 2004. / Bibliogr. p.279-290.

Diss.--Philosophische Fakultäten--Freiburg im Breisgau--Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, 1997. Titre de soutenance : Die Propaganda der Mittelmächte in Italien während des Ersten Welkriesges. / Bibliogr. p. 346-376.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Biomedical Informatics)--Vanderbilt University, Dec. 2009. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D.Min.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2008. / Includes abstract. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 166-169).