No single mainstream approach—neo-liberalism, structural-institutionalism, a flying geese pattern, regional networks, or economic geography—provides adequate explanation of Taiwan's recent economic development. Extending the insights of these important perspectives, this study employs...

In the economics and strategy fields, researchers seek to understand the antecedents of firm profitability. How and why do certain private enterprise firms develop competitive advantages in environments of rapid technological change while other firms do not? This study extends recent variance...

Industrial organization economics and resource-based views of the firm have disagreed over what matters most to profitability for more than 60 years. Until recent variance decomposition studies started trying to determine the relative importance of industry, corporate parent, and business...

Recent variance decomposition studies have started trying to determine the relative importance of industry and firm on profitability, but little research has been done to investigate exactly how much the difference in regions and countries could explain the variation in industry performance....

The internationalisation of service industries has been a key managerial focus since the late 1980s, and internationalisation became an area of mature research in the international business field in the 1990s. The reason is that service industries confronted a completely new set of challenges...

The rapid growth and industrialization of Taiwan's textile and IT sectors, mainly comprised of small and medium-sized enterprises, has prompted an array of explanations among academics, including neoliberalism, structural-institutionalism, flying geese patterns, regional networks and economic...

Does the country-of-origin effect matter to industrial brand equity in international business-to-business (B2B) markets? The effect of a product's country-of-origin (COO) on both industrial buyers' and consumers' perceptions and evaluations has been one of the most widely studied phenomena in...

The industrial organization economics and the resource-based view of the firm have led to disagreements over the question as to which of firm performance at the industry and firm levels has persisted longer since the 1970s. Acknowledging that the IT industry in Taiwan has become very competitive...