李吉仁2006-07-262018-06-292006-07-262018-06-292005http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/17053Literature 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.application/pdf307182 bytesapplication/pdfzh-TW國立臺灣大學國際企業學系暨研究所Competence BuildingBusiness ConfigurationDynamic Capabilitiesreporthttp://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw/bitstream/246246/17053/1/932416H002049.pdf