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Author-Name: Rasiah, Rajah
Author-Email: rasiah@intech.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Author-Name: Lin, Yeo
Author-Workplace-Name: Asian Development Bank
Title: The Role Of Market, Trust and Government in the Development of the Information
	 Hardware Industry in Taiwan
Abstract: The dominant accounts about industrialisation in Taiwan have taken on either a
	 market-government dichotomy or a confluence of both. In addition to market and
	 government, this paper attempts to establish the role of trust in the development
	 of the information hardware industry in Taiwan. While the dispersed industrial
	 structure of Taiwan facilitated entry and exit of firms, selective intervention was
	 important in stimulating firms' participation in innovative activities. Trust
	 played a critical role in coordinating inter-firm relations so that firms
	 negotiated the currents of creative destruction effectively to appropriate
	 small-firm flexibility and scale economies at the industry level. Trust was also
	 instrumental in strengthening coordination between government and market. Smooth
	 coordination through markets and trust, and government participation in the
	 stimulation of R&D activities, helped transform Taiwanese information hardware
	 firms from Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) to Original Design Manufacturing
	 (ODM) and Original Brand Manufacturing (OBM) operations
Keywords: Market, Trust, Government, Information Hardware, Taiwan
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 2003
Number: 10
File-URL: http://www.intech.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/2003-10.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 124 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:200310