Purpose – To determine the status of internet and e-commerce adoption by the Taiwan semiconductor industry, the research is designed to help government and enterprise in formulating strategic plans and making resource allocation decisions. Design/methodology/approach – Using the three-level model of internet commerce adoption (MICA), a survey of 287 companies and web sites was designed. Semicon...

This paper investigates the impact of new firms’ quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment contribution of new firms. In particular, start-ups in manufacturing industries generate larger direct and ove...

Abstract. This paper reports on elemental factor analyses of the innovativeness study in the Turkish manufacturing industry, drawing on a sample of 184 manufacturing firms. Factor structures are constructed in order to empirically test a framework identifying the relationships among innovativeness, performance and determinants of innovation. After several independent principal component analyse...

a r t i c l e i n f o The present paper studies the effect of the choice of product quality on trade and location of firms. We discuss a model where consumers have preferences for the quality of a set of differentiated varieties. Firms do not only develop and sell manufacturing varieties in a monopolistic competitive market but also determine the quality level of their varieties by investing in...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are the new type of information systems for enterprise integration. By adding functionality to previous manufacturing resource planning systems, the aim is to integrate functions and processes within a manufacturing firm. In this paper, we present a survey of ERP implementation in Swedish manufacturing firms, concerned with ERP system penetration, the ...

The Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF) is a unique engineering laboratory under development at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) Center for Manufacturing Engineering. The facility provides a base array of manufacturing equipment and systems -a "testbed" -that researchers from NBS, industrial firms, universities, and other government agencies can use to experiment with new sta...

Light and heavy manufacturing contribute a great deal to the Italian economy and the products manufactured in this sector form a major part of the exports. Most of the manufacturing industries center around small or medium-sized firms, but there are some larger companies too. Although automation will characterize work in the future, manual labour will remain important for Italian manufacturing ...

Du, Julan, Lu, Yi, and Tao, Zhigang—Contracting institutions and vertical integration: Evidence from China’s manufacturing firms The existing studies on vertical integration focus on factors at the transaction parties’ level, such as asset specificity and contractual incompleteness. What is overlooked is the quality of the underlying institutions, in particular, contracting institutions. In thi...

Ghanaian manufacturing firms face a highly risky environment. Firms may attempt to manage these risks by undertaking production, input, and investment strategies designed to lower profit variability. Mean-variance analysis implies, however, that these strategies involve a trade-off with lower expected profits. This paper investigates the extent to which more risk averse managers who face high r...

Sustainable development has been widely considered as an important issue in the hightech industry. The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors motivating sustainability development strategies adoption and implementation and to study the relationships between the motivating factors and the readiness of implementation at strategic level (management willingness) and tactical level (res...