Cooperation with Supply Chain Members and the Innovation Performance of the Firm:Evidence from TFT-LCD Industry

[[abstract]]TFT-LCD產業為全球新興的高科技產業，此產業結合台灣既有電子產品製造優勢及政府與民間企業的大力投入，已具備有領先世界的潛力；再加上台灣政府致力將光電產業推向世界舞台，因此本研究從基本產業群聚程度的衡量與觀察開始，透過不同合作模式對創新績效的影響，再進一步探討群聚對創新績效的影響。 本研究以發放問卷方式來收集相關資料，母體選擇以TFT-LCD的相關產業廠商為樣本發放問卷，資料來源為產業工會出版之科學園區附錄之廠商名單及群聚外廠商。問卷內容之設計根據過去文獻及假說設計，分為供應商合作、顧客合作、競爭者合作及此產業聚落廠商之間彼此互動的合作模式等四個構面，總計有效問卷為118份，科學園區內廠商收錄86家、科學園區外廠商收集32家，以SPSS統計軟體進行迴歸分析。 本研究結果發現，廠商與顧客及競爭者合作對創新績效有正向顯著影響，其原因為顧客對於廠商有市場需求的回饋與共同開發方向之策略性指標影響，故對創新績效有顯著之影響；而與競爭者之間由於在商業上的共同合作，以及技術資源分享與供應鏈整合也能帶來好的創新績效並創造利益。與供應商合作及聚落廠商之間彼此互動的合作對創新績效並沒有顯著影響，其原因為供應商因自身創新能力不足，故大多數以跟隨的方式調整步調，對於廠商而言，僅能達到配合而無創新之顯著績效；各廠商之間的互動關係也因為多為消極的替代關係，而導致創新績效無顯著的提升。[[abstract]]TFT-LCD industry is a global and emerging Hi-Tech industry. It combines the electronic product that Taiwan’s manufacturing advantages, government’s and enterprises’ efforts, which have already possessed in the world-leading position. Moreover, Taiwan government is devoted to promoting the photoelectric industry to the world arena. This research begins from measurement and observation of the basic industry clustering intensity, to different cooperative way impacts on innovative performance, and then further probe into the impact on innovative performance of clustering. Relevant materials are collected by releasing questionnaire. The parent regards relevant industry's manufacturers of TFT-LCD as samples and releases the questionnaire. The source is of appendix of Hsin-Chu Science Industrial park manufacturer list and other manufacturer of outside the cluster. The design of the questionnaire is according to literatures and hypothesis in the past, and divided into four copositions, supplier's cooperation, customer's cooperation, competitor’s cooperation and the interactive cooperation among the clustered manufacturers. There are 118 valid questionnaires.86 questionnaires are from the manufacturers in Science park and 32 are collected from manufacturers outside the science park. These data are analyzed by SPSS. The result of the study finds there is a significant positive influence of innovative performance that the manufacturer cooperates with customer or with competitor. The reason is that customer has tactical influence to feedback the market demend and co-development direction to the manufacturer. Due to the cooperation on business, technology resource sharing, supply chain integration, can also bring good innovative performance and create benefits. Cooperated with supplier or interaction among clusters didn’t show any relative influence. The reason is that suppliers’ own insufficient innovation ability, and follow majority’s step. From the manufacturers’ point of view, suppliers can only be cooperators and have no significant performance. Interaction among manufacturers are mostly the passive substitutive relationship and caused no apparent improvement of the innovative performance.[[note]]碩