English Abstract: Slack can prevent the substantive loss of enterprise suffering from the uncertainty, but it leads to inefficiency because of the large carrying cost. The ideal status is that the enterprise carries less slack and has the competency of response to the unexpected circumstances....

It has been increasingly recognized that the competitive opportunities of industrial clusters have become a critical element of national, state, regional, and local plan activities. The Hsinchu Science-based Industry Park is the most successful industry cluster of Taiwan, it was established in...

A web portal is a site that can serve as a starting point to a wide variety of web searches. Portal technology first emerged when search engines like Yahoo! developed a common avenue by which users were able to seek and retrieve information from the Internet. These sites emerged as gateways to...

The Multinomial Logit model is employed in this study to examine the relationship of the choices of technology strategies adopted by the manufacturing firms in Taiwan. The technology strategies are divided into four categories: "both R&D and purchased technology", "only R&D", "only purchased...