Doctoral Dissertation Research: Collaboration on Thin Ground: Contract Production Arrangements Between Taiwanese Firms and their American MNC Customers in the PC Industry

博士论文研究：薄弱领域的合作：台湾企业与其美国跨国公司客户在个人电脑行业的合同生产安排

• 批准号: 0324833
• 负责人: Erik Wright
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-15 至 2004-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0324833&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Collaboration; Thin

This dissertation project examines the Original Equipment Manufacturing/Original Design Manufacturing arrangements between Taiwanese firms and their American MNC customers in the personal computer (PC) industry. It focuses on the issue of cooperation between them as contract production partners and addresses the question of how they have managed to initiate, sustain and deepen their cooperation in an industry generally considered to be relatively knowledge intensive given their cultural differences and the weakly regulated global economy. Its secondary task is to determine the quality of cooperation found between these firms by contrasting it with instances of customer-supplier cooperation found in economies that are known to be endowed with thick culture and institutions. The project employs the approach of multiple comparative case studies. Data is collected through archival research as well as structured interviews with relevant firms in Taiwan and their American customers and, if necessary, in-depth interviews with Taiwanese government officials. Through examining the phenomenon of inter-firm cooperation across national borders, the project is expected to shed light on the more general problems in social sciences of how and what kinds of cooperation are possible in a thin cultural and institutional environment. It is also expected to have broad empirical significance given the growing recognition of the importance of inter-firm cooperation in those parts of the world not blessed with a rich socio-institutional infrastructure and in developing countries eager to engage in industrial upgrading by taking advantage of the spread of MNCs-led international production networks in the high-tech sectors.

该论文项目研究了台湾公司与其美国跨国公司客户之间的原始设备制造/原始设计制造安排（PC）行业。 它着重于他们作为合同生产伙伴之间的合作问题，并解决了他们如何设法启动，维持和加深其在通常被认为是相对知识密集的文化差异和弱监管的全球经济的行业中的合作。 它的次要任务是通过将这些公司与已知具有厚厚文化和机构的经济体中的客户供应商合作的实例进行对比，以确定这些公司之间的合作质量。 该项目采用了多个比较案例研究的方法。 数据是通过档案研究以及对台湾及其美国客户的相关公司的结构化访谈收集的，并在必要时对台湾政府官员进行了深入的访谈。 通过研究整个国家边界之间建立企业合作的现象，该项目有望阐明社会科学中更普遍的问题，即在薄薄的文化和机构环境中如何以及哪种合作是可能的。 鉴于人们对在世界那些地区的重要性的认识日益认识到，这也将具有广泛的经验意义，而在世界那些地区的重要性越来越多，并没有拥有丰富的社会制度基础设施，并且在发展中国家渴望通过利用MNCS领导的国际生产网络的传播来进行工业升级。