Taiwan has had a strong OEM electronics industry for over 20 years now, but in a time of narrowing profit margins Taiwan has been trying to move to a more OBM oriented strategy. In this study I have shown that even though Taiwan has been able to create several globally recognizable and –in the eyes of consumers- high quality consumer electronics brands its worldwide image as a country has not improved among consumers. Taiwanese products are viewed as being only slightly superior to Chinese brands. This means that new and established Taiwanese brands don’t have the advantage that Japanese brands have just by coming from a country with a good reputation. Consumers in Europe and North America have less knowledge of the country of origin when it comes to Taiwanese brands compared to Japanese and Korean brands. Because of the bad reputation of Taiwanese products brands are hesitant to associate themselves with Taiwan creation a vicious circle. Taiwan’s rival Korea however has been making progress, it’s brands are more recognizable as Korean and the image of Korean products is also better even though the individual brands are not necessarily rated more favourably by consumers. It’s not recommended for individual Taiwanese brand owners to associate itself with the country as this would in most cases negatively affect its brand value. It’s also found that Chinese, Korean and Taiwanese brands with a high perceived quality are often mistaken as Japanese. It may therefore be helpful to for Asian brands to try to associate themselves more with Japan or East-Asia in general. As for improving the country image of Taiwan, the Taiwanese government should redouble its efforts to improve the country’s image to a level it deserves according to the technological advances made in Taiwan in the past decades.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CHENGCHI/G0099933058 |
| Creators | 安彥伯, Braam, Jan Jaap |
| Publisher | 國立政治大學 |
| Source Sets | National Chengchi University Libraries |
| Language | 英文 |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Rights | Copyright © nccu library on behalf of the copyright holders |
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