A Study of Maintenance and Management Models of Applied Information Systems in Taiwanese Transnational Corporations (TNCs) – A Case for Cross-Strait Electronic Manufacturers
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Hsu, Wen-Han
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
In late 1980’s, Taiwanese enterprises were forced to relocate their manufacturing bases to regions where provide cheaper labor and are closer in terms of geography and culture (eg. Southeast Asia and China), at the same time these movements initiated the turning point of Taiwanese enterprises’ internationalization. For those contract manufacturing-oriented medium and large-scaled businesses in Taiwan, their foreign investments are mainly about setting factories in overseas locations, transforming its existing division of labor and production structure, and moving manufacturing bases to periphery contractors while retaining research and design capabilities. On the one hand they act as agents of customers from advance countries in terms of production cost and quality control, on the other hand, they actively maintain the flexibility and efficiency of their production units and network, therefore Taiwanese transnational corporations’ primary aspects are reproducing production capability overseas and strengthening manufacturing competitiveness; There are significant differences when it comes to managing cross-strait businesses between Taiwanese and Western transnational corporations, such as social and political factors, information technology remains immature.., etc. Consequently, the information architecture in each company is different too. It cannot be done by adapting the model that Western transnational corporations used to develop and maintain information systems, nor can it be constructed from a regional perspective.
In fact, once information systems go online formally and their users start to operate, the stage where maintaining information systems begins. Taiwanese transnational corporations will face the issue of choosing the proper type of applied information system maintenance architecture, regardless of the management style of the MIS department - organization and information architecture is centralized, decentralized, or both. This study will categorize the maintenance and management models of transnational applied information system as “centralized,” “decentralized,” and “mixed,” and dilute factors that influence transnational information system and maintenance from transnational corporations’ MIS department - organization, maintenance of applied information systems, information systems architecture, and related theories and case studies.
To conclude, three categories of applied information system and maintenance models and suitability-analysis model for choosing the best management style to maintain applied information systems.
Subjects
MIS department
information architecture
information system maintenance
Type
other
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