This study examines how institutional environmental factors, including cultural norm, state regulatory system and venture capital market, influence the high-tech entrepreneur's choice for using network vs. market methods when approaching prospective investors at the early stage of their new...

Since the late 1980s, Singapore has emerged as a major regional hub for magnetic hard disk drive (HDD) assembly operations, accounting for about half of the world's total HDD output. This paper examines how this came about by analyzing the supply infrastructure needed to support the competitive...

The flat panel display industry (encompassing products such as LCDs for laptop computers) is of interest as a global industry with rapid technological turnover where in place of the East catching up with the West, it is a case of the West trying to catch up with the technologically advanced...