[[alternative]]The Dynamic Capabilities of Industries Upgrade: Taiwan's Apparel Foundry Industry

[[abstract]] 從1869年起台灣紡織業開始發展，從織布製作技術開始扎根，逐漸發展成成衣製作、代工，也形成較為完整的產業鏈，經過長時間的技術經驗累積，台灣在成衣製作上不僅技術純熟，品質方面也很精良，並且在成衣商品鏈中佔有重要地位。但是隨著世界在商品流通方面逐漸打破疆界，加上資訊的快速傳遞、各項資源來源的變化、技術進步之下，成衣代工產業的競爭變得嚴苛，台灣從原本因人力資源價格低廉的簡單服飾生產，到海外設廠並挑戰交貨速度、完善服務、客製化、成本低且多樣化等的訂單需求，產業開始實行資源整合管理，例如提高織品布料的機能性、設計能力等，發揮台灣成衣業上下游產業鏈較為完整的優勢，同時快速吸收正確的市場趨勢，讓台灣成衣產業在世界持續具有競爭力。 成衣產業常有被認為會成為夕陽產業的隱憂，但目前我們了解到的成衣代工在國際仍有良好的評價，是各大國際品牌選擇下單的工廠。本研究以動態能力探討在成衣代工廠在面對競爭挑戰時運用的各項能力，包括彈性運用重新配置能力和市場結構等公司內外部的資源，以及顧及各項技術和聲譽等顯性和隱性資產，試圖發現在各項能力中實際執行情況的可行性或缺失，進一步了解台灣成衣代工在產業中的競爭優勢。 最後，除了台灣目前要達到永續經營的目標以外，為未來想要擁有揚名國際的自有品牌目標提出建議，從教育開始穩健的培育人才，檢視目前台灣市場過度模仿卻沒有兼顧品質的隱憂，期待台灣在政府及教育單位的扶植之下，未來“台版”(Made In Taiwan)成衣也能風行海外。[[abstract]] Taiwan’s apparel foundry industry may trace back to 1869. It started by weaving techniques, and has gradually improved its ability to manufacture products, producing a complete industry chain. When Taiwan is proficient in the apparel foundry industry and shows high quality of products, its role in the apparel foundry industry manifests its importance in this commodity chains. While the trend of trade development is supra-national, great spread of information, the diversity of resources and the improvement of techniques make apparel foundry industry gain competitive advantages. Even though Taiwan’s products were manufactured by simple and inexpensive human resources in the past, the apparel foundry industry seeks to expand foreign factories, upgrade the efficiency of delivery in manufactures, perfect service, develop customized products, and maintain cost saving to meet the requirement of an order for goods. The industry in Taiwan also introduces management of resource integration such as improving the cloth’s usage functionality and industrial ability of design, promoting comprehensive advantages of related industry chain. Meanwhile, understanding the market trend in time is the right way to sustain the competitiveness of Taiwan’s apparel foundry industry in the world. Even though Taiwan’s apparel foundry industry is considered as a sunset industry, it still receives a large order for products from many international famous brand companies due to its good evaluation in the international market. This research is based on the Dynamic Abilities approach to discuss the abilities of Taiwan’s apparel foundry industry in face of different challenges. Such abilities include using reconfiguration and market structure flexibly, and concerning over positive and negative properties. Furthermore, the study seeks to explore feasibility and weakness of these abilities in practice, and further to understand the competitive advantages of Taiwan’s apparel foundry industry