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Gollan, Hugh. "The New Zealand dairy industry--international trade & industry structure." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13343.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.Title as it appears in the June, 1991 M.I.T. Graduate List: International trade in dairy products and the New Zeland industry.
Includes bibliographical references.
by Hugh Gollan.
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Raabe, Katharina. "Industry structure and monetary policy effectiveness." Maastricht : Maastricht : Universitaire Pers Maastricht ; University Library, Universiteit Maastricht [host], 2006. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=5834.
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McDonald, Roger L. "The structure of the computer industry." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/24049.
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Graham, Gary. "Defence industry structure and supplier strategies." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296000.
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Kolosov, Pavel, and Shageldi Soltanmammedov. "Board Structure in Swedish Mutual Funds Industry." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-45164.
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Mutual funds attracted great attention of both shareholders and academics in last few decades. Mutual funds provide benefits like diversification, professional managements and reduced costs for individual shareholders. Shareholders invest their assets into mutual funds managed by professionals. Managers may have an incentive to use those assets to satisfy their own interests. They can achieve this by charging excessive fees or spending more on the perquisites. These unmatched interests of shareholders and managers create so called principal-agent conflicts. Some researchers argue that market competition in mutual funds industry is strong enough to align interests of both shareholders and managers, thus mitigating principal-agent conflicts. Others believe there is need for internal governance to monitor managers‟ behaviors. Board of directors as an internal governance mechanism is responsible for aligning shareholders and managers interests.We collected data on board characteristics to find if they are related to funds attributes. Our sample of funds consists of 68 fund management companies with total of 603 mutual funds managed by those companies. Board characteristics include board size, age and gender of board members, and presence of CEO on the board. Fund attributes are total expense ratio, rate of return and management fees used as a measure of board effectiveness. We analyzed relationship of board characteristics and fund attributes separately on the company level and fund level.On the company level we found no relationship between board size and board age with expense ratio and rate of returns. We found significant positive relationship between board gender and presence of CEO with expense ratio. These results indicate that with the increase of male members on the board and the presence of CEO on the board there is an increase in total expense ratio. On the fund level analysis we found different relations with various types of funds. This may indicate that depending on the type of the fund the structure of the board that is effective changes.
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Macchiavello, Rocco. "Financial constraints, industry structure and firm's boundaries." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2007. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1976/.
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The first part of this Thesis analyzes the impact of financial constraints (FC) on industrial structure. Chapter 1 presents a model that disentangles several effects of FC on entry, turnover, productivity and firms size distribution. The framework is applied in Chapter 2 which develops an industry equilibrium model of vertical integration under contractual imperfections with specific input suppliers and external investors. I assume that vertical integration economizes on the needs for contracts with specific input suppliers at the cost of higher financial requirements. I show that the two forms of contractual imperfections have different effects on the degree of vertical integration, and that contractual frictions with external investors affect vertical integration through two opposing channels: a direct negative, investment, effect and an indirect positive, entry, effect. Using cross-country- industry data, I present novel evidence on the institutional determinants of international differences in vertical integration which is consistent with the predictions of the theoretical model. In particular, I show' that countries with more developed financial systems are relatively more vertically integrated in industries that are dominated by large firms. The second part (Chapter 3) asks whether vertical integration reduces or increases transaction costs with external investors. I build a model in which a seller produces a good that can be used by a buyer, or sold on a spot market. The buyer and the seller have no cash, need to finance investments for production, and can not foresee in advance whether the input is most efficiently traded on the spot market or among each other. I assume that ownership of physical assets gives control over contracting rights to those assets, that financial streams get transferred with ownership and that returns can not be perfectly verified. The net balance of the costs and benefits of integration in terms of pledgeable income depends on the relative intensities of a positive "profits-pooling" effect against a negative "de-monitoring" effect. I find that larger projects, more specific assets, and low' investors protection are determinants of vertical integration. I discuss joint liability contracts between non integrated firms and how contractual externalities among investors favor integration.
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Nocke, Volker. "Industry structure and the dynamics of competition." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2491/.
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This dissertation focuses on the analysis of industrial market structure and related topics in industrial economics. It comprises three self-contained essays on dynamic aspects of industry structure, collusion, and the limits of monopolisation. The first essay, which is contained in chapter 2, analyses a dynamic game of investment in R&D or advertising, where current investments change future market conditions. It investigates whether underinvestment can be supported in equilibrium by the threat of escalation in investment outlays. When there are no spillovers, or there is full patent protection, underinvestment equilibria are shown to exist even though, by deviating, a firm can get a persistent strategic advantage. When there are strong spillovers and weak patent protection, underinvestment equilibria fail to exist. This implies that weaker patent protection can actually lead to more investment in equilibrium. Furthermore, potential entry is introduced into the model so as to address issues of market structure. It is shown that underinvestment equilibria can be stable with respect to further entry, independently of market size and entry costs. Finally, the ''nonfragmentation" result of static stage games (Shaked and Sutton 1987) is proved to hold in this dynamic game. That is, fragmented outcomes can not be supported in any equilibrium, no matter how large the market, and despite the existence of underinvestment equilibria. The starting point of the essay in chapter 3 is the traditional view in the IO literature, according to which there is a negative relationship between cartel stability and the level of excess capacity in an industry. Recent supergame-theoretic contributions appear to show that this view is ill-founded. Focussing on the issue of enforcement of cartel rules (''incentive constraints"), however, this literature completely ignores firms' ''participation constraints". Reverting the focus of attention, the paper restores the traditional view: large cartels will not be sustainable in periods of high excess capacity (low demand). In contrast to the supergame-theoretic literature, it predicts a negative relationship between excess capacity and the collusive price. The aim of the final essay, contained in chapter 4, is to provide empirically testable predictions regarding the relationship between market size and concentration. In a model of endogenous horizontal mergers, it is shown that concentrated outcomes can not be supported in a free entry equilibrium in large exogenous sunk cost industries. In contrast, very concentrated outcomes may be sustained in endogenous sunk cost industries, no matter how large the market, and even in the absence of mergers. It is shown that these predictions do not depend on any details of the extensive form of the game, even allowing for side payments between firms and endogenous product choice. The results complement those of Sutton (1991) on the stability of fragmented outcomes.
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McLeod, Mark Alexander. "Essays in Educational Economics and Industry Structure." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28558.
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My dissertation contains two separate components. One part is a theoretical examination of the effect of ownership structure on format choice in the radio industry. I use a Hotelling type location model to study the effects of mergers in the radio industry. I find that common ownership of two radio stations results in format choices that are more similar than under competitive ownership, and also that the stations will advertise more if they are operated under common ownership. Welfare results are ambiguous, but there is evidence that total welfare might decrease as the result of a merger, with obvious policy implications for the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice who evaluate and regulate mergers in all industries.
The second component is an empirical study designed to assess the effectiveness of a mathematical tutorial that I authored in conjunction with colleagues in the Math department here at Virginia Tech. I taught four large sections of Principles of Macroeconomics in the spring and fall of 2001. Each class met on MWF; two sections at 8 AM, one at 10:10 AM, and one at 1:25 PM. I required one of the sections (8 AM Spring) to review the module and take a proficiency quiz to demonstrate their skill level in basic math that is used in the Economics Principles course. Final average in the course is the dependant variable in a regression designed to discover which variables have explanatory power in determining performance in introductory economics. Besides exposure to the math module, I include other independent variables describing class time, semester, demographics and effort. In addition, I collected qualitative information about the students' perceptions of the module's effectiveness and administration.
I find that exposure to the Math module does not have a significant effect on performance in the course. However, within the treatment group, there is a positive significant effect of time spent using the module on performance. Also, being registered for an 8 AM section has a significant negative effect. Overall, student comments indicate a dislike for the module. Students report that they prefer learning math skills through lectures by the professor and use of textbooks.Ph. D.
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Bhaskarabhatla, Ajay Sivaram. "Nanotechnology enterprise in the United States : structure and location." Thesis, Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006, 2006. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-04092006-162228/.
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Matraves, Catherine. "The determinants of market structure in manufacturing industry." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320835.
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Barnett, David Colin. "The structure of industry in London, 1775-1825." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1996. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12617/.
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This study sets out a quantitative overview of the economy of London during the period 1775 to 1825. A database has been constructed from the extant London Fire Office registers of 31,000 businesses trading either in the periods 1769-1777 or 1819- 1825, and in a few cases in both. Represented are over 1300 separate trades covering the entire spectrum of manufacturing, construction, wholesale and retail distribution, transport and the service sector. To complement this data, use has also been made of trade directories, bankruptcy files, trade card collections, Census data and contemporary literature on London trades, including career guides. In order to analyse trends over this period, the database uses a version of the modern Standard Industrial Classification modified by the author. The 1300 separate trades are grouped into 101 sectors within seven main divisions of the economy. The database includes the name(s) of the proprietors of the business, the address, the trade and details of the risks insured. From this it has been possible to present statistical evidence on a number of areas of controversy about the role of London during the Industrial Revolution. It is shown that London remained a major manufacturing centre throughout the period. It has also been possible to exemplify in detail the impact of the 18th century consumer revolution by charting the expansion and increasing diversity of the wholesale and retail distribution sectors. Finally, the Importance of the role of service industries in the economy of London has been established, with special reference to transport and catering.
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Öster, Jonas, and Ester Hammarström. "The Swedish PR Consulting Industry - Development, Structure, and Professionalism." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Business Studies, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-9487.
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There has been a rapid expansion of the PR and information industry during the last few years. An expansion like this might lead to structural changes in an industry. The aim of this thesis is to describe a part of this industry, namely the Swedish PR consulting industry, in terms of its development, structure and professionalism. Web sites of the consultancies in the industry has been analyzed. Furthermore, interviews have been conducted with three leading individuals in the industry. Structural changes can be seen since there is a trend towards further specialization among the consultancies. Some of the most common criteria for an industry to be characterized by professionalism are not achieved, but the industry is characterized by an aim towards increased professionalism.
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Mendoza-Contreras, Jose Eduardo. "Designing industry structure and regulation under political economy constraints." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2004. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/843554/.
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This thesis focuses on the political economy of industrial policy as defined by Laffont (2000). In particular we study the effects of political economy constraints on industry design. Our motivation relies on the results of more than 20 years of regulatory reforms, where industries have been reorganised after their initial privatisation and/or restructure. So far, the literature has extensively studied the relationship between political economy and regulation (Levy &; Spiller (1997); Henisz & Benet (2003)). However, the study of the relationship between political economy and industry structure has received less attention. This has happened despite the fact that, as noted by Dana (1993), industry structure and regulation are jointly determined. Our work contributes to the study of the effects of political economy constraints on industry design. At a theoretical level we build on Auriol & Laffont (1992)'s model of regulation by duopoly and on Dana (1993)'s model of regulating multiproduct natural monopolies. We introduce delegation to their problem and we allow for regulatory capture. In the first case we found that under some circumstances capture biases Congress' decision towards a more competitive structure (duopoly) as the optimal response. In the second case, we find that if preventing capture is too costly, industry design favours horizontal separation of the natural monopolies as the optimal response. At an empirical level, we analyse the political economy constraints that led the Mexican government to reform its natural gas industry while keeping natural gas production as a legal monopoly and organising the industry with a dominant integrated incumbent (transmission and retail). This chapter contributes to our research by opening the "black box" of the determinants of industry design a little more. It also contributes to the literature that has studied Mexican natural gas reform. This literature has concentrated its attention on the study of regulatory incentives, taking industry structure as given.
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Kaufman, Lance Darshana. "Three essays on governance structure in the hospital industry." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3563586.
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An important factor in the rise of health care costs is the structure and performance of health care markets. This is an area in which policy can be particularly effective. Health care markets are characterized by complex interactions between consumers, physicians, insurers, facilities, and government agencies. Physicians, insurers, and facilities operate under a mix of objectives and governance structures. The many varieties of objectives, and governance structures can be broadly categorized as for-profit, not-for-profit, and governmental.
In the three chapters that follow I construct a theoretical framework to analyze hospital behavior and use a 30 year panel of data on Californian hospitals to assess the validity of the models and to identify the impact of governance structure on behavior. Chapter II addresses firm objectives. I find that firms have a continuum of weighting allocations, with for-profit firms placing greater weight on profit, government firms placing greater weight on social objectives, and not-for-profit firms locating in a middle ground. All three types of governance structures display overlap in their objectives.
In Chapter III, I identify patterns in hospital entry and exit. Like most manufacturing industries, entering hospitals are significantly smaller than incumbent hospitals and exiting hospitals are significantly smaller than surviving hospitals. The patterns of entry and exit for hospitals vary systematically with both governance structure and geographic diversification.
In Chapter IV, I develop a model of hospital entry that explains heterogeneous entry size and firm survival. I find entry size to be a relatively important factor in firm survival. In general entering on a larger scale increases the probability of survival. Despite this fact many firms enter relatively small. The model that I develop resolves small entry as a rational choice for uncertain firms.
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WERNER, FREDRIK. "Ecommerce and market structure effects in theEuropean retail industry." Thesis, KTH, Entreprenörskap och Innovation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-149749.
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Fifteen or so years into what is said to be the game changer of our time there are many fields of science focusing their attention towards the online market in attempts to describe its implications for the traditional, offline markets. Where most of the literature on economics of ecommerce focus on pricing mechanisms and growth little attention has been directed towards more general market structure effects. This thesis adopts techniques, empirical and theoretical models from the search cost and market structure literature in order to examine the relationships between ecommerce and offline market structures in the retail industry through regional employment and establishment data. The literature reviewed and used focus only on the US market whereas this thesis shifts the attention to the European regions. The results are convincing and in general corresponding to previous research results. As ecommerce usage increase and the consumer search costs thereby gets lower inefficient firms drop out of the market resulting in a decline in local establishment counts. The opposite effect is seen for pure online retailing establishments that thrive in the presence of local ecommerce usage. The effect of ecommerce on traditional offline establishments seems to be aggregated phenomena whereas the effect on pure online firms seems to be of a more local nature. Focus of policymakers and company management therefore might consider looking at the two effects in their respective aggregation level to best sort out how to react in the presence of increased competition from ecommerce usage.
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Kaufman, Lance. "Three Essays on Governance Structure in the Hospital Industry." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13007.
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An important factor in the rise of health care costs is the structure and performance of health care markets. This is an area in which policy can be particularly effective. Health care markets are characterized by complex interactions between consumers, physicians, insurers, facilities, and government agencies. Physicians, insurers, and facilities operate under a mix of objectives and governance structures. The many varieties of objectives and governance structures can be broadly categorized as for-profit, not-for-profit, and governmental.
In the three chapters that follow I construct a theoretical framework to analyze hospital behavior and use a 30 year panel of data on Californian hospitals to assess the validity of the models and to identify the impact of governance structure on behavior. Chapter II addresses firm objectives. I find that firms have a continuum of weighting allocations, with for-profit firms placing greater weight on profit, government firms placing greater weight on social objectives, and not-for-profit firms locating in a middle ground. All three types of governance structures display overlap in their objectives.
In Chapter III, I identify patterns in hospital entry and exit. Like most manufacturing industries, entering hospitals are significantly smaller than incumbent hospitals and exiting hospitals are significantly smaller than surviving hospitals. The patterns of entry and exit for hospitals vary systematically with both governance structure and geographic diversification.
In Chapter IV, I develop a model of hospital entry that explains heterogeneous entry size and firm survival. I find entry size to be a relatively important factor in firm survival. In general entering on a larger scale increases the probability of survival. Despite this fact many firms enter relatively small. The model that I develop resolves small entry as a rational choice for uncertain firms.
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Eischen, Kyle. "The limits of rationalization : work practice, industry structure and spatial organization in the software industry /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Curto, Francesco Fortunato. "Strategic groups, industry structure and firms' strategies : theory and evidence from the UK grocery retailing industry." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/98784/.
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This research analyses the explanatory and descriptive limitations of strategic groups research, a theory that addresses a number of important issues for strategy research. That is, it considers rivalry among firms in a similar competitive environment, the relation between strategy and performance and similarities and differences among competing firms. An historical study of the origins and development of strategic groups research shows that the concept of strategic groups was independently developed in strategic management and industrial organisation in the mid-1970s. Much research has been conducted since its inception. However, this research has been mainly empirical in nature. Empirical research has not brought unambiguous findings with regard to some of the fundamental hypotheses of the theory of strategic groups. This has led researchers to raise fundamental questions about the usefulness of the concept of strategic groups. A number of approaches emerged in the 1980s that question some of the fundamental hypotheses of strategic groups theory. Our analysis shows that each approach has its limitations and that strategic groups theory is still the most comprehensive approach, addressing a number of issues of interest for strategy researchers. Given the problems identified at both theoretical and methodological levels, an exploratory approach is used in this research. An historical analysis of the dynamics of firms’ strategies and competitive structure in the UK grocery retailing industry between 1980 and 1995 is used to gather information. This forms the basis of the analysis of (a) the importance of similarities and difference in the strategies of comparable firms and (b) for understanding the mechanisms underlying industrial and business dynamics. The empirical research shows the severe limitations that characterise strategic groups at analytical, descriptive and theoretical levels. The information gathered in the empirical research is an important basis to start thinking about developing a better approach to analyse and explain the dynamics of firms’ strategies and competitive structures.
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Barnes, Peter Edward. "The motivation of staff in the outdoor education industry." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1999. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21405.
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This study examined the motivation of outdoor staff working in multi-activity residential centres. The study took place against the background of an outdoor industry undergoing major legislative and cultural changes. These changes were discussed at length. Notable amongst the outcomes of the discussed changes was a need to improve staff retention within multi-activity residential centres. The motivation of staff was studied with this in mind. Following an initial pilot study, there were three major phases to the research. These were, a mail-shot questionnaire, focus group interviews and an investigation of personal constructs using a repertory grid (rep grid) technique. Structuring the study in this way allowed for quantitative data to be given depth and developed through qualitative techniques. Following a discussion of the major motivational theories, Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory was nominated as the grounding theory upon which the study was structured. This motivational theory a spect of the study was balanced with consideration of the social and cultural aspects of working in the outdoor industry. The major finding of the study was that outdoor staff are heavily motivated by autonomy, responsibility, challenge, altruism and variety. They are most strongly de-motivated by external factors, notably poor centre administration and inadequate resources. A multilayered motivational model was developed to give structure and synthesis to these findings. It was also found that outdoor staff are less interested in linear career progression in the conventional understanding than in progression through personal and professional development. It was noted, however, that this progression was subject to lifestage changes. Although outdoor staff were found to be transitory it was put forward as a recommendation that challenge and variety could be found from within a stable employment situation and that, as a result, the outdoor industry needed to adopt a different approach to career structure. A second model, the redeveloped career pyramid, was suggested to demonstrate these recommendations.
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Chan, Iat Meng. "Macau banking industry: present structure and strategies for future development." Thesis, University of Macau, 1995. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1636686.
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Ng, Pui-ling Anna Laura. "Employment structure of workers in the Hong Kong construction industry." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37175233.
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Lounsbery, Tara Lee Ashworth. "Foundations in the mining industry : characteristics, structure and exit strategies." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/39775.
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Community social investment (CSI) is often part of the sustainable development efforts for mining companies, especially in remote areas or in developing countries. One vehicle for CSI is to establish a foundation, trust or fund (FTF). This thesis explores the FTF structures, with specific focus on exit strategies. Research focused on questionnaire respondents from twelve mining companies or foundations, twelve interviews conducted with representatives of companies, foundations and industry, and various public documents. A mixed-method qualitative approach was taken in analysis, focusing on trends emerging from the data, especially in the interviews conducted by the researcher.
There are various types of FTFs, with existing typologies defined by programmatic method, focus or key attributes. In this research, the author focused on considering FTF types by closure or exit strategy, and presenting some of the key attributes in relation to these exit strategies. The key attributes that should be aligned with the exit strategy include the financing mechanism, the project selection method, and the governance and management functions. Although it is not yet standard practice within the industry, designing the FTF structure for closure is considered leading practice. Currently FTFs tend to plan for closure on a project-by-project basis.
Transition is a natural feature of FTFs, whether due to the progression of mine life cycle stages, changes in government, local capacity, or other factors. Strategic plans help to smooth these transitions and facilitate the closure process.
Foundations, trusts and funds provide a unique opportunity to build specialized expertise in an independent structure from the supporting mining companies. This independent structure can facilitate the development of partnerships with multiple stakeholders, an area which was identified as significantly contributing to sustainable results as the partners pool resources and expertise. The independent structure of an FTF also tends to facilitate the involvement of the community, without which community social investment struggles to find true ownership and sustainability.
While mining companies should consider the pros and cons of the FTF structure relevant to the local context and business objectives, the FTF structure offers distinct advantages as a vehicle for CSI.
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Bergmark, Sten, and Emil Dahlberg. "Determinants of Capital Structure in the Swedish Dairy Farm Industry." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-105090.
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We have examined the capital structure of the Swedish dairy farm industry and the driving forces behind this capital structure. This industry has undergone some major changes during modern time. These changes constitutes mainly of the number of farms and technological development. This, in combination with reported low profitability in the industry, has sparked a high media coverage about the survivability of the agricultural industry due to its important social function. The survivability of a business can be seen in its capital structure since that contains long term debt that can force a firm to become bankrupt and also the equity that contain retained earnings that can help a company weathering periods of low profitability. Research question: How can a change in debt level for firms in the Swedish dairy farm industry be explained by financial investment theory and financial variables? We formed three objectives in order to answer the research question. The first one was to examine how financial investment theory can explain the change in debt level. The second objective was to analyze relevant financial variables to find additional indicators of influence from investment theory as well as compare our results to previous research. The final objective was to analyze financial variables to substantiate our findings and find further explanations to the capital structure of the industry. The theories used in order to explain the capital structure are the Pecking order theory and the Static trade-off theory. Both theories are established theories in capital structure research. The Pecking order theory states that different capital financing option follow a strict hierarchy with internal capital as the primary choice, debt financing as secondary and the equity financing option as the least preferable option. The Static trade-off theory states that there is an optimal debt level that companies strive towards. This optimal level depends on the interest tax shield and bankruptcy costs. We performed a quantitative study with a deductive approach to perform this study. The sample comprised of annual financial information from 100 Swedish dairy farms during the period 2000-2013. Criteria was formed in order to sample full-time limited liability companies. The results show that the Pecking order theory was the most significant determinant for the change in long term debt. The Static tradeoff model showed some incompatibility with our population, reducing its reliability. The indicator variables size, asset structure and growth was found to be positively related to the debt levels, while the profitability was negatively related to all debt variables. The risk of the firm was only significantly negative for long term debt and leverage ratio. The Pecking order theory showed to be predominant in the Swedish dairy farm industry. This is substantiated by the indicator variables taken together and by the descriptive statistics. We also found that on average, the industry is suffering from low profitability and struggled to make profitable investments although the profitability differs a lot within the sample.
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Hibberd, Martin Sidney. "The technology and structure of the British wood furniture industry." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323015.
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Malinge, Jean-Louis. "The impact of German telecommunications deregulation on the industry structure." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10955.
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McCabe, Mark J. "Industrial structure and technological change in the nuclear power industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13088.
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Riddell, Henry S. "The structure of maintenance organisations in the aluminium smelting industry." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.630462.
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The general lack of senior management concern about maintenance activity in industry over the last 20 years, revealed in government surveys. is reflected in the limited literature and virtual absence of research into the principles of organisation theory applied to maintenance organisation structures. This thesis seeks to aleviate this situation by following a systems - contingency approach in a research and comparative analysis of maintenance organisations in the aluminium industry. The key design elements involved in the structure of these maintenance organisations are identified. They are found to be departmentation. size/shape. role of senior maintenance manager. roles of maintenance engineers. roles of maintenance foremen. intra-departmental co-ordination. and inter-departmental co-ordination with production and engineering groups. Those factors. primarily human factors. upon which these design elements may be contingent are proposed and the significance of their impact predicted. Their inter-dependence and influencing mechanisms are described with the aid of a set of systems models. The relationship between changes in the maintenance organisation structure and improvement in maintenance and business performance is demonstrated. together with proposed methods for identifying and measuring that improvement. On the basis of this research. the analysis and design of each key element is possible. and a rational approach to the design of a whole maintenance organisation structure in an aluminium smelting firm can be proposed. It is demonstrated that much of this approach 1s equally relevant to the design of maintenance organisation structures in other process industries.
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"Innovation, competition, and industry structure." Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/2335.
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Tsai, J. R., and 蔡俊榮. "The Industry Competitive Structure Analysis of LAN Industry in Taiwan." Thesis, 1994. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69237021646088508507.
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Lee, Yuan-Hsin, and 李永信. "The Industry Structure and Scenario Analysis of Digital Home Entertainment Industry." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67060854786273530222.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
國際企業學研究所
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The concept of digital home includes entertainment, information, voice and secutity control. Among these application areas, entertainment has been regarded as the most potential area for commercialization. However, there would be three major camps competing for the market dominance, including players of personal computers (PCs), consumer electronics and service providers, which makes the industry evolution uncertain. The present research will focus on the competitive evolution of entertainment PC (EPC) products and explore critical factors underlying the prospective structure changes. We will apply five-force model and scenario analysis to this research issue. Based on the five-force analysis, we found that theorem, hope to provide a base for firms to formulate strategies. From history and present situation, EPC faces: 1). High level bargaining power from supplier and buyer; 2) .Medium-to-id-high level threat from susbstitute (DVD player) and potential entrant (Set-top-box); 3). Low level complementary asset specificity and rival price -competition. At the same timeIn addition, we also found that: important industry character is also discovered: 1). Last mile and content areis key complementary assets; 2). Value integration of entertainment applicationwould constitute barriers to new entry. is the high entry barrier. Based on scenario analysis, we identified several key scenario variables, including technology evolvement, Triple Play and killer application progress, media policy and last mile openness. These factors were then classified into 3 axises: Technology, Demand and Co-optition, under which four scenarios were established. In “monopoly”scenario, EPC faces lower bargaining power and threat, higher specificity of complementary asset and consumer demand, which represent the best scenario. Accordingly, the research suggests that EPC firms actively influence the future through the following ways 1). They should take sides in HD/ Blu-ray DVD and WLAN standards, proactively join DLNA and increase install base; 2). They should increase the ratio of EPC product and bundle the service of internet content provider; 3). They should actively cooperate in product co-development aspect with service providers like telecom and cable companies, to enhance the dominance of their key asset (last mile and content).
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Hsu, Ching-chang, and 徐慶昌. "Application of population structure change on industry structure forecast in Taiwan." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42011713378573046587.
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碩士國立交通大學
科技管理研究所
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Because of the improvement of medicine and technology, human life is continuously extended. The baby boomers of WWII are gradually stepping into the aged pool; many countries will be faced with the problem of population structure changes in the following years. By this trend, these countries’ governments must make some policy changes to meet the trend. Furthermore, the industry structure and national competence will also be immensely affected. Most previous researches about the impact of demographic trends are focused on the migration theory of population and the environment factors. But this research is focused on the impact of population structure change on the industry structure. We use Taiwan as example to illustrate the relation between the population structure and the industry structure. First, we use relation analysis (correlation coefficients) to build the model of the impact of population structure on industry structure. Second, we forecast the population structure in the following years by regression models and the cohort component method. Finally, we combine the relation and the population forecast of previous stage to forecast the industry structure in the following years, and to build the ANN models between the population structure and the industry structure. From the ANN models we can get the industrial development direction that related corporation can follow to make its appropriate strategy, and government can refer to formulate the national industry policies.
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White, Lynda E. "Industry structure, market structure and international trade: theoretical and empirical observations." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2338.
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This paper describes international trade activity as affected by the structure of markets and industries. The paper builds upon recent international economic literature that models international trade within imperfect markets. Arguments for trade intervention by national governments in order to shift industry rents to the home nation are further surveyed. Similar trade models are used to explain economic growth from both a national and global standing. A Cournot perception of competitive behaviour is employed within a basic model developed of two-country, intra-industry, oligopolistic trade of a homogeneous good. The model predicts that lower marginal costs lead to higher output and lower relative costs lead to higher relative market share than of the foreign rival industry. However, firm number within the relative industry can offset cost effects. If fixed costs are present, gains from rationalization may be realized through trade and result in higher industry concentration. In order to test the hypothesis that higher concentration of industry leads to greater trade, particularly export trade, the paper applies regression technique to measure the relationship between Canadian industry exports and a variety of concentration variables. Results show more highly concentrated industries to have greater export volume. When standardized export and concentration variables are used, weak evidence is presented that export and concentration in Canada are positively related. However, analysis of United States industries confirms that concentration explains a significant amount of industry propensity to export. Based on testing and other empirical results, it is concluded that rationalization of costs associated with export trade and/or ability to discriminate between markets motivates trade in concentrated industries. Under imperfect market conditions, government may want to intervene in trade by promoting higher concentration of industry if net social surplus gains through trade can be realized. Competition policy may promote not only combine activity but also cooperation between firms in order to reduce duplication of international trading costs. If competition policy affects international trade partners, regulators of world trade activity may take interest in national policy related to industry structure and competition as it affects global welfare.
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Gainutdinova, Olesya. "Cost structure of the local telecommunications industry." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/33870.
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Using a panel data set on the local telecommunications companies reporting to the FCC
for 1988-95, this paper investigates the subadditivity of the cost function, as well as
technical and allocative inefficiency of the U.S. local telephone industry. The subadditivity
test on the estimated translog cost function indicates that certain subdivisions of the
monopolized regional markets between two hypothetical firms might lower total cost.
However, the evidence is not as clear cut as in an earlier study by Shin and Ying (1992,
RAND), with savings from a two-firm industry being negative on average over all possible
two-firm output vector combinations. The results of the subadditivity test suggest that
companies with a relatively high share of residential customers experience higher degrees
of scale inefficiency. Specification of technical inefficiency as fixed company-specific
effects results in a different efficiency ranking than the specification with random effects.
The estimation results for the generalized (non-minimum) cost model suggest that capital
is being under-employed relative to residual inputs. This finding does not support the
theoretical prediction that an industry under rate of return regulation tends to over-employ capital relative to other inputs. The subadditivity test for the generalized cost function that accounts for technical and allocative inefficiency generated a much more favorable estimates of cost reductions from the subdivision of the monopolized markets than the test on the conventional specification of the cost function. The estimated losses from technical, allocative and scale inefficiency reflect potential gains from competition.Graduation date: 1999
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"Inter-industry studies of structure and performance." Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/2167.
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SHIHWEI, WANG, and 王士維. "The Market Structure of Japan Brewery Industry." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55510934887387300939.
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碩士淡江大學
日本研究所
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Abstract: The study motive: The circulation series which has an interest most in the Japanese management means that the maker organizes ( making a series ) a wholesaler, a resale trader as the sales reinforcement of the goods of the one''''s own company, the means, the way of the price maintenance. However, the symbolical happening which shows the decline of the power of the maker recently before a great deal of sales power of the major resale industry is an import beer tumult in 1994.The beer in the major supermarket gave an air hole in the giraffe, ASAHI﹑SAPPORO﹑KIRIN and so on 5 company oligopoly system. It says that the maker places under the rule up to this from the wholesale to the retail store by the taking the lead to show the example of the Japanese beer industry. The policy of doing the TATE division becoming of the series the vertex of which was a maker was taken. Like the home electronics industry, it is different from maker''''s making a retail store step a series and it means that the maker makes wholesale businesses a series with the circulation series about the beer industry ( The special agent circulation series ).In 1994, the circulation series of the beer industry is achieving big transformation. The maker, the wholesale, the role, the function of the retail store will become different from the past substantially in the new system. This is a reason for wanting to study, narrowing down to the beer industry in the Japanese liquor industry why. The way of studying, the purpose of the study If being in shoes of the economics, as far as the circulation activity, too, is one of the economy activities, it should be possible to catch as the activity of the economic person and the economic organization. Therefore, the actual state of Japan''''s circulation can be analyzed as the result with the mutual dependence relation of the circulation activity of such an economic person and the economic organization. The analysis of this study is developed on this common understanding. It is because it thinks that to understand the reason by the analysis having to do with economics because the circulation is excellent before being the social and cultured organization and is an economical organization is important basically. This study argues about the dealing limitation variously such as the circulation series having to do with perpendicular from the viewpoint of the efficient management of the circulation channel while it is to the agent theory of the micro- economic theory ( the industrial organization theory ).As for the collection of the data of this paper, it collected a research data from the library, the bookstore and so on in Japan and Taiwan and using the Internet, it still gathered an industrial organization theory, circulation, a paper, a data about the beer industry and so on. It examined in the analysis and the comparison, it did it in the reference to the data which collected literature, a data in this direction and it wrote a paper. The purpose of this study is as follows. The as 1, in the Japanese beer industry as " stone on the other mountain " partial experience will be surely useful to the Taiwan beer industry. It is in searching for the present situation about the circulation about the beer industry in 2, Japan and making it reference in the future in Taiwan. It is in telling the reflected problems which the Japanese society has through 3, circulation''''s change about the beer industry in Japan and so on to the general public in Taiwan and making a preliminary preventive by it.
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Chen, Chiao-Chung, and 陳巧鐘. "Research on Manpower Structure of Services Industry." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10870652684221178215.
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碩士輔仁大學
應用統計學研究所
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With the active promotion of “Six Emerging Industries” and “Service Industry Development Plan,” Taiwan government hopes that 120,000 job opportunities can be created each year since 2012, making service industry create more job opportunities and lead the way to economic growth. Owing to the higher demand of service industry on manpower quality, whether the manpower structure of service industry can meet the needs of national economic growth and industry development or not is worthy of further discussion. As a result, this survey uses contingency table to demonstrate the differences of the diverse combinations of service industry employees’ demographic characteristics such as academic background, working experiences, gender, industry category and occupation. Statistics methodologies like correspondence analysis, 3D model and association analysis are also utilized to display the distribution and the correlation. The analysis reveals that industries related to the “Six Emerging Industries,” “profession, science and technology” only occupies 4.5%; “medicine and health care, and social work,” 6.2%; “art, recreation and leisure industry,” only 1.6%. These industries have relatively lower percentage of knowledge-based service industry labor force. The effect of job opportunity creation is way to be brought about. The analysis also show that most of the temporary staffs or dispatched employees are young adults between 15 to 25, engaging into general affairs, non-technologic or labor intensive works with less than 5 years seniority and NTD 25,000 income. While working on the Labor Dispatch Law, the government should put the protection of such employees into consideration, enact or amend related regulations to properly assert the rights of the laborers and satisfy the needs of business management.
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CHENG, CHUN-PING, and 鄭浚平. "The Loan Structure in Taiwan Car Industry." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/aj2zh5.
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碩士實踐大學
財務金融學系碩士班
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Is there a demand for finance companies existing in Taiwan? The answer has been in dispute between researcher and specialists. The skeptics argue that Taiwan doesn’t need finance companies on the ground of the existing diversified fundraising channels instruments and of overbanking. The advocates contend, however, that finance companies be set up for the high-risk debtors obtaining funds from the market, that the source of funding of finance company is not from deposit money, and that finance should be liberalized and internationalized. Comprehensive studies show that finance companies should be set up and regulated by laws and supervision to diversify fundraising channels, enhance the competitiveness of enterprises, boost economic momentum, and meet the requirement for financial services. This research examines the styles on customers of different car loans: various loans from the bank and paying by installments to an automobile company. We also probe in depth how the finance companies operate the car loan to circumvent the law restriction. We find the relevant laws and regulations, the operative modes of the finance company and the cooperation with the bank are all in question. The operating mode of finance companies, without the supervision of the government, enables themselves to easily outperform the commercial banks in the game of finance. Therefore, there are neither any laws nor regulations to give specific authorities in contemporary world, and leaves consumers less protected, as well as violates the Fair Trade Act in Taiwan. With the growth of fintech particularly in P2P lending, it is necessary to keep abreast with development of regulations since finance companies have already existed for years. Given the facts that the authorities concerned are advised to revisit and enact specific law to govern the business models of car loans of finance companies in the recently future.
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Kästner, Matthias. "Innovation and industry structure : how Silicon intellectual property revolutionizes the semiconductor industry /." 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/362396957.pdf.
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Yu, Ke-Yih, and 游克義. "A Study on the Industry Structure and Firm Strategiesof China’s Steel Industry." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72824398006320088023.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
國際企業學研究所
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Steel Industry is a fundamental industry in every country. China steel and its related industries collectively represent 10% of GDP and have replaced Japan as the largest crude steel production country worldwide since 1996, and 46.3% of worldwide crude steel production in 2012. However, its industry average profit was only 0.04% in 2012 due to slow demand growth and excess capacity. The global steel industry therefore faced declined demands, excess capacity, and trade barriers. This study reviews the developmental history and identifies key factors to the explosive development in 2000s, including (1) the pre-industrialization helps the continuously fast growth, (2) strong demands gave excesses profits, (3) the local government’s strong encouragement due to promotion system. When the demand-growth is slow down, the oversupply leads to poor profitability. Based on the S-C-P paradigm and Five-Forces Model, the study found that the industry is unfavorable to creating positive profitability. We also concludes the KSFs, including: (1) strategic M&;A (2) reduce the ore dependency. (3) develop differentiation and vertical integration (4) leverage brand and (5) develop relevant diversification strategy to reduce the systematic risks. We then take Baosteel Group as a case study and found that its core competences incldue (1) differentiation preposition, (2) the integration of customer needs, (3) continuously R&;D, (4) strong brand, which are all related to the KSF of the industry. We therefore provide several suggestions to the case company, including: in case of initiating M&;A, negotiating with the local government to maximize the firm’s benefits despite the issues of tax, economic growth and domination, diversifying to other businesses in order to reduce to overall risk while maintaining exit mechanism, growing up talents with both international operation capabilities and fitting Baosteel cultures.
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Kuo, Hsiao-Jung, and 郭曉蓉. "A Scenario Analysis on the Industry Structure and Strategyof Electric Scooter Industry." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78918106313858127674.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
國際企業學研究所
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Due to global warming and severe environmental pollution, governments and corporations around the world are striving to invent environmental-friendly electric vehicles. In January 2015, Gogoro introduced its newest product, Smartscooter®, in CES (Consumer Electronics Show). With its special design, battery swapping infrastructure and unique business model, Gogoro attempts to change the existing game rule and affects competitors’ strategies accordingly. Therefore, this thesis will undertake a scenario analysis to portray the dynamic change of electric scooter industry after Gogoro was unveiled, and propose useful strategies for the intended players to meet future challenges. This paper analyzes the industry structure of electric scooter industry based on Michael Porter''s Five Forces Model, Value Net, and Scenario Analysis Method of Stanford Research Institute. Based on the industry analysis, we discovered variable factors that affect industry developments. Thereafter, we categorized these factors into different groups, and constructed four potential scenarios with varied factors combinations. According to the industry and scenario analysis, we found out that whether the battery technology is the core factor that would directly determines the future development of this industry, and the best scenario for the corporations would be “Strategic Alliance.” Therefore, the best strategy for current players in the industry is to cooperate with different firms in upstream and downstream of industry value chain. By consolidating the resources, these players could have bigger bargaining power to the government, the consumers and other players outside of the alliance.
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Lu, Chien-Hsun, and 呂建勳. "A Study on the Industry Structure and Competitive Dynamic of Semiconductor Distribution Industry." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15885631041610359899.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
國際企業學研究所
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During the past 30 years, Taiwan has been growing successfully in IT production and becomes the world’s largest electronic production power house. Parallelly developing with the electronics manufacturing, semiconductor distributors undoubtedly played a foremost role to support the industry growth. Despite its importance, this industry sector has received little research attention in the previous literature. To bridge the knowledge gap, the present research attempts to provide systematic analyses on the industry structure and competitive dynamics of semiconductor distribution industry. To implement our research attempt, we will employe various analytical tools, such as five-force analysis, strategic group analysis, and value net analysis. By so doing, we hope that this research could furnish useful insights for industry players in their future pursuit. After setting up the boundary of analysis, we employed the five-force model to develop the structural characteristics of the semiconductor distribution industry. In examining the relationship between semiconductor supplier and electronics manufacture, we focused on the scale of industry, market growth, industrial concentration, and relative bargaining power. In order to conduct a systematic analysis of the semiconductor distribution industry, we further took into account the characteristics of the industry, the decision making process of the channel market, the competition from the supplier’s VMI direct sale, and the threat of regional traders to complete the analysis. Based on strategic group analysis, we further classified the whole industry into top, middle, and bottom strategic groups and explored their key successful factors. We further investigated three major istructural issues: (1) Higher concentration amongst top and bottom layers of the market with dispersal across the middle layer: (2) Crisis triggered by supplier’s VMI direct sale: (3) Set full competition within the channel industry and the pressure from global. Next, we focused on business strategy undertaken by major players. Upon completing examination of the profit-sharing structure, we realized that the primary suppliers have yielded the most benefit. Basded on the fact, we generated some appropriate criteria for selecting a strategic partner. Then, we applied value net analytical framework to suggest ways that would yield the best total value.Finally, we proposed two different value-creation strategies, the economic scope distributor strategy and niche market distributor strategy, for the semiconductor distribution industry. Implications and suggestions to practioners are also discussed.
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Seth, Prabodh. "Growth and structure of leather industry in U.P." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/5852.
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Lai, Shu-Shu, and 賴數淑. "Industry Structure Change and Development strategy in Taiwan." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/h852sy.
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碩士銘傳大學
經濟學系碩士在職專班
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In recent years, the structure of the industries in Taiwan has been facing dramatic changes. It has transformed itself from an underdeveloped agriculture-oriented structure into a capital-intensive and technology-intensive one. The purpose of this study is to review the history of industry development in Taiwan and to explore the impact of industrial structure changes on Taiwan’s economic development and growth. In addition, the influence of industrial strategy and policy planning on the development of industries in Taiwan is also explored in this study. Finally, some public policies to be promoted by policy-makers in order to make the industries more globally competitive and to achieve the goal of sustainable development for Taiwan’s industries are proposed.
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Hsieh, Mei-ling, and 謝美玲. "The Structure-Conduct-Performance：Study of Taiwan Airline Industry." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13880772874307925409.
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碩士東吳大學
國際貿易學系
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The purpose of this research is to examine Taiwan airline industry using the structure- conduct- performance theory. We find that before “Open-Sky” policy, there are significantly entry and exit barriers due to the government regulation so as to only few aviation companies exist in the industry and the price flexibility is quite limited. After the “Open-Sky” policy, the number of the aviation companies increased from 4 to 9, which increases the industry competition. The overall efficiency and profitability of Taiwan aviation industry was not good in the early stage of the “Open-Sky” policy. Though there were signs of improvement in later years, but it again started deteriorating in the year 1995. In 1998, the profit of aviation companies is even negative. Since then, the industry consolidation and strategic alliance had been emerged. In addition, either before or after the “Open-sky” policy, Taiwan domestic aviation industry is under government surveillance and control, especially the pricing and the flight route. As a result, the industry is oligopoly; the operation is still heavily impacted by government policy.
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Huang, Jr-Shiung, and 黃志雄. "DISSCUSSION ON COST STRUCTURE OF MECHANICAL PROCESSION INDUSTRY." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7s596y.
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碩士元智大學
管理碩士在職專班
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A procedure is the cost of the development of the machining industry is discussed. The cost estimates of the products for the machining industry are mostly useless. The vast majority is based on the experience of the field master or the target price provided by the market customers as the actual The benchmarks of the transaction, which caused the market price confusion, the trust between customers and suppliers greatly reduced, in view of this, by the case of the company's related market experience, the actual supply and demand sides of the processing of the cost of processing products are considered As well as the reference and valuation formula for the relevant reference, and to sort out the more acceptable or easy to understand the current market is easy to understand the way to be available as a mechanical processing market can refer to the basis for assessing the cost.
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HSU, MEI-HUI, and 徐美惠. "High Technolgy Industry Human Resources Role Model Structure." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50570453748165976669.
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碩士國立中山大學
人力資源管理研究所
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The main topic of discussion of this research is about the functions and role-played by high-tech human resources employees and to confirm what are the key factors needed to assure success at the role they play? How to maximize human resources functions and role they play to achieve the goal of empowering the industry’s added value and efficiency, this is to be the main consideration of a human resources expert personnel in self-improvement. Ulrich’s role vantage point was used in this research during observation, 4- role structure was applied and 20 appraisal standard tests were designed. Through experts’ discussion and comparison to confirm the importance of 4 role structures, the order according to it’s importance are the following: 1. Strategic human resources management 2. Employees contribution management 3. Company basic constructive management 4. Transformation and changes management. The Analytical Hierarchy Process AHP was applied during the processing of this research, after sorting and organizing the experts’ evaluation and comparison of each role structure, the result shows that, 1.In high-tech industry human resources role structure comparison, the strategic human resources management is the most importance with a highest importance value of 43.9%, the other structures value of importance are: Employees contribution management 21%, company basis constructive management 18.4% and transformation and changes management 16.7%. The results conform with Ulrich’s (1997) view about the human resources experts’ emphasis should shift from “doing the things” to” achievable result”. 2.Fitzenz (1993) thinks that the organization and human resources management can lead to high-performance results. It encourages people to join the organization it should join, continue to produce high production rate, long-term organization commitment and maintain the competitive edge, the result of this research also conforms to that opinion. In the high-tech industry where the competition is stiff, to be able to maximize the human resources cost is the greatest benefit. Employees’ contribution management has always been the main important point at work, that’s why it is next important to the strategic human resources management, it is worth for human resources personnel to pay more attention to. 3.This research’s scope is only within the high-tech industry, it was found that the transformation and changing management’s less important than the other 3 structure, it did not receive much attention contrary to the general opinion that high-tech industry demands more change. As a logical conclusion, due to difference in company life cycle, product life cycle, level of technical R&D, therefore the degree of these needs are not the same, moreover, changes needs the support of the higher management and a proper timing, also, it cannot be executed at the same time so it’s actual level of importance was limited. 4.Human resources strategy must be in consolidated with the enterprise strategy this research matches several scholars’ opinion. In the 20 items of evaluation standard, the most important structural phase is the strategic human resources management where 3 items were included in the first 5 items of the evaluation standard. The items included are: coordinating the human resources matters and operation strategy comparative importance 14.1%, cooperate with enterprise goal in setting the human resources strategy, comparative importance 11.5%, joining the drafting of business operations strategy, comparative importance8.2%, this only shows that strategic human resources management is the most crucial key structure phase.
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Tsao, Shu-Chun, and 曹淑君. "The structure and conduct regulation of network industry." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86868362515313621355.
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Hong, Bing-Huei, and 洪炳輝. "Structure,Conduct,Performance of Taiwan Life Insurance Industry." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73535210247825664717.
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Yeh, Wan-Chuan, and 葉萬權. "Analysis and Prospects of Taiwan Steel Structure Industry." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22964141563157655736.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
土木工程學研究所
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ABSTRACT “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes - Mark Twain”。 Construction industry is one of the largest industries in the world, it is accounting for GDP13.4% of worldwide economic output value, around 7.5 trillion U.S. dollars (WSA 2013). Meanwhile, the amount of steel construction industry consumes more than 50% of the world''s steel production. Structural steel industry is not only one of correlation industry of steel &; iron industry, and also an extremely important element of the construction industry. Structural steel industrial is key nexus led the development of other related industries, and is a labour, technology, capital-intensive industries, the importance of Taiwan''s structural steel industry in the construction industry can not be understated. Structural steel annual consuming is around 34 million tonnes in Taiwan in year 2013, accounting for about 5.0 ~ 7.5 percent of Taiwan''s total steel production proportion. Compare with Europe and Japan and other advanced countries (the 30% ~ 40% of total steel production proportion in 2010), there is still a considerable of the gap. Even if since the 921 earthquake, steel structural been utilized in residential buildings increased significantly, however, structural steel production capacity in Taiwan is still far greater than the market demand. The global steel demand will increase rapidly along with some significantly important developing countries which account for over 40% of the world''s population, e.g. China, India and ASEAN. With the development of these regions as well as the higher urbanization, more demands of the public infrastructure and higher quality residential buildings will lead their construction industry into the peak period of development. Output in those regions or countries to GDP will be higher and caused more structural steel consuming. Taiwan''s steel industry should strive to actively seek opportunities to restructuring from domestic-oriented industries as a competitive and foreign demand industry, or go to the market to set up manufacturing and logistics centre, grow and thrive as an international enterprise. Would like to take this research, through data collection and statistical to complete the Porter’s five-forces analysis and SWOT Strategy Analysis Matrix, provide Taiwan''s construction steel producer /industry some competitive consideration and with more in-depth understanding of the object.
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Chao, Yi, and 趙翼. "Testing Capital Structure Theory: Evidence from REITs Industry." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43474652558918559515.
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碩士輔仁大學
金融與國際企業學系金融碩士班
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Real estate has been considered as a good investment by many. It provides investors steady rental income, decent value appreciation and a excellent hedge against inflation. Unfortunately, the huge amount of money required for its investment prevent it from being accessible to individual investors. Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), by being traded in stock exchanges, avoids the disadvantage of real estate investment described above. This thesis analyzes the capital structure in the REIT industries. In the prior literatures on capital structure REITs are usually removed from the sample because of its unique regulation. This thesis focuses on comparing the pecking order theory and the trade-off theory to determine which one is more relevant to the capital structure determination in the REITs industry. Using non-nested test, I find that both the trade-off theory and the pecking order theory are inadequate in explaining capital structure of the REIT industry, even though I also found moderate evidence in favor of static trade-off theory. In contrast to the similar research on regular industries, I find that static trade-off theory seems to provide higher explanatory power on the capital structure of REIT than pecking order theory. The adjustment speed estimated for the REIT industry is higher than the adjustment speed estimated for the regular industries.