Abstract
Over the past 20 years, Taiwan’s high-tech industries have been playing more and more critical roles in the worldwide competitive markets. Some of the founders or leaders of the high-tech companies coming back from the United States brought in the state-of-the-art technologies to combine the local capital and founded global high-tech companies. Some of the founders or leaders of the high-tech companies were locally born and raised but were also influenced by the western education system in Taiwan. However, little research has been done to examine the impacts and differences between different values and management systems. This thesis aims to investigate the impacts of the differences in western and eastern culture on corporate management. In particular, this study compared the difference of business value, control system and characteristics of the leader among five distinct companies, four of them are located in Taiwan and the other one is located in the United States. The results of the investigation showed that the western business value and management systems, which had experienced numerous test and modification for years, fit Taiwanese companies well but the western business value and management systems must be “decorated” to fit the unique oriental culture so as to facilitate and enable the execution of the business value and management systems. In addition to business value and management system, the characteristic of a leader is also curcial to the success of the company. Through analysis of the 5 case companies for the difference in western and eastern culture, this study summarized some suggestions to Taiwanese companies for them to avoid unnecessary obstacles when implementing western business value and management systems in the oriental culture. This study concludes woth discussions on right things for the oriental company to harmonize western management by the oriental cultire for achieving success. Keywords: Technology Management, High-tech Industry, Case Study