Abstract
AbstractIn LCD history, it can be said that Japan played the most pivotal role. When LCD industry just started in Japan, materials were unable to obtain by exterior. For the mass production of TFT panels, LCD industry presented “highly vertical integration” and “exclusive technology”. Each company developed their own technology and component parts, it resulted to great specification differences and the low degree of standardization. Accompanied with LCD industry transferred to Taiwan gradually. The systems between Taiwan companies and Japan companies were independence from others. But the component parts that Taiwan needed still had to rely on these suppliers from Japan, and the standardization of technology and components still limited in Taiwan.Although the developing of LCD component industry progresses in resent years in Taiwan, especially in “key” component that cost higher. It did help for Taiwan to expand LCD industry. Maybe the “key” components are not longer so important by changes of time and environment. In this case: cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) was cheap, but getting more and more important by becoming bottleneck of LCD output. Because of the large demand in LCD-TV market, there are manufacturers beginning to put mass production in Taiwan, attempting to share the market. But Porter emphasized that in “Competitive Advantage of Nations”: No matter local supplier or related and supporting industries,it must have to interlink with other factors. If it unable to catch the advanced technology and reflect to the market in time, it’s still limited to the contribution of enterprise’s competition even with the best supplier.Therefore this research will see “Resource Dependence” as the core and the view of Taiwan panel companies, and describing the relationship of dependence between panel industries and component parts industries. Trying to discuss how to manage component parts more efficiently and keep key resource in control, in hope of improving the competition advantages of the panel industries in Taiwan.