事業佈局與能耐基礎成長策略
Other Title
Competence Building, Business Configuration, and Economic Performance:
An Empirical Investigation
An Empirical Investigation
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
DOI
932416H002049
Abstract
Literature of competence-based management has suggested that firm heterogeneity lies in the firm ’s
capabilities in managing both competence building and competence leveraging activities in a
synergistic manner. Leveraging the existing competencies to a wider business scope, however,
involves different levels of uncertainty and risk with balancing strategic flexibility and organizational
efficiency, which makes the realization of synergistic outcomes difficult. To achieve sustainable
growth, a firm has to manage the dynamics between competence building efforts and business
configurations so that economic returns can be ensured. Despite the critically, the extant literature is
scant in exploring such dynamics and its impact of a firm ’s economic performance. To bridge this
knowledge gap, the present research postulates a theory-guided empirical exploration on the
interplays among competence building efforts, business configuration, and economic performance.
Based on a longitudinal data set containing operating information of electronic hardware
manufacturers based in Taiwan, we are able to perform a path analysis on the dynamics among these
constructs. Results show that a contract manufacturer ’s product competence building efforts will
positively facilitate its pursuit of wider business scope, and process competence building efforts will
negatively influence on contrary, while competence building efforts and business configuration have
direct and indirect effect on economic performance. Furthermore, significant interactions among
product scope, customer scope, and vertical integration are found in our analysis. Implications of
these empirical results and suggestions to future research on this important yet under explored issue are discussed.
Subjects
Competence Building
Business Configuration
Dynamic Capabilities
Publisher
臺北市：國立臺灣大學國際企業學系暨研究所
Type
report
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