We argue that supply chain positioning affects the ability and scope of innovation. This is so because positions on the supply chains affect the access to knowledge and the ability to appropriate the value coming out of innovation. Knowledge determines the capability of innovation and...

This paper illustrates foreign direct investment (FDI) as the management of important network relations, using Taiwan's electronics firms as an example. Through FDI, seemingly small and weak firms propel the process of internationalization by making maximum use of external resources to which...

Taiwan, once one of the world's leading manufacturing economies, is now transforming into a service economy, with an emphasis on knowledge-based services. This metamorphosis has not been easy. As well as major changes in the industrial sector, human resource and policy development have been...