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A study of auto-parts industry's internationalization, knowledge management and organizational innovation

Due to the trend of globalization, Auto-parts industry in Taiwan is facing the challenge of market liberalized and global car companies¡¦ tactical regroup that cause the structural readjustment.
In order to maintain market competitive capacity, Auto-parts companies in Taiwan head into internationalization gradually and set up overseas subsidiaries in different investing types, creating so-called multi-national enterprises. The overseas subsidiaries will not only present their different tactical missions they should undertake that are different from their headquarter¡¦s during expanding market share, but also play different roles in monolithic value chain. Under internationalized operation, how to keep track of transcendental international knowledge-management tactics and generate innovative motivity continuously will be a great challenge to reputed traditional industry- Auto-parts in the future.
Through questionnaire-inquire method, this research reports explore the connection of the knowledge management and the ability of organization innovation in Auto-parts industry. Adding the view of internationalized tactics to search the above influence of otherness in order to find out the most optimum international knowledge-management operation mode.
After this research is studied and verified, the main points of it as follows:
1. The analysis of otherness: This research points out that the level of internationalization to the Auto-parts firms does not cause any notable difference in knowledge management and organization innovation.
2. Influential analysis: In the part of affection of knowledge management to organization innovation, this research notes that other variable of knowledge management to management innovation and technology innovation exists positive connection aside from knowledge management tactics. The ¡§learning culture¡¨ is the most forecasting factor to management innovation and technology innovation. Besides, both ¡§knowledge-supporting information system¡¨ and ¡§knowledge-transfer advancement¡¨ get marked forecasting to the management innovation of Auto-parts industry. ¡§Multinational-integration-knowledge innovation¡¨ has notable forecasting to technology management. Only value-chain-activity causes influence in variable to the part of knowledge management and organization innovation in internationalized tactics.
The research to Auto-parts industry remarks that learning culture, knowledge-supporting information system, knowledge-transfer advancement and multinational-integration-knowledge innovation enable knowledge management to create positive affection in organization innovation. Thus, as my suggestion, enterprises have to get the effort in cultivating learning culture, establishing knowledge-supporting information system, advancing knowledge transfer and using the method of integration to create knowledge.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0617104-135500
Date17 June 2004
CreatorsLi, Yi-pei
ContributorsHuei-Mei Liang, Iuan-yuan Lu, Hsien-tang Tsai, Chang-Chiang Chin
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0617104-135500
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