Fu-sheng Tsai

This study investigates the development and applicability of the Resource Dependence Perspective (RDP) as a critical building-block for Information Systems (IS) research. First, the paper reviews the essential ideas of RDP and its intersection with IS research. Second, we conduct an Informetrics analysis on the development of RDP per se based on citations in RDP-related studies. Third, we explore the application of RDP in the IS field using a network analysis of current published studies and author communities. Major findings indicate that RDP serves as a rigorous rationale for Information System related studies. Furthermore, we found that the research community, composed of IS researchers applying RDP, is growing and shows great potential. We offer a scholarly review and critique of possible future trends and research opportunities related to RDP in the IS area. Major practical suggestions include (a) promoting strategic IS research (practical studies), (b) enhancing collaboration ...

This paper processes the key co-evolution mechanisms between firm capability and the fundamental technology trajectory of the industry. First, firm capability heterogeneity drives the selection process, which shapes firm positioning in the industry. Second, fundamental technology is changed both by firms and other organizations. Firms attempt to gain more control of the technology or re-position themselves in the industry through technological innovation while other organizations such as universities innovate out of scientific purposes. Third, the renewed industrial position makes feedbacks to the firms in their capability develop process. And finally, capability development processes renewal feed forward to reshape the industry capability pool. These dynamics of capability and technology are illustrated through the case of Lithium battery industry in Taiwan. The emerging applications of lithium battery for green energies trigger industry change as well as technology advances.

... However, there is often a gap in their collaboration between industry and academies in ... of innovation-oriented SMEs, thereby contributing to the upgrading of Taiwan's industries andtechnologies. ... to the development of a systematic learning mechanism to create a knowledge ...

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ABSTRACT Composite diversity among team members is one of the noteworthy but neglected issues for its contingent effect on knowledge management processes. This paper presents that these often contingent and sometimes bipolar effects of composite diversity occur in their relationship with knowledge sharing, which is one critical element for knowledge management. Nevertheless, we argue that this contingency does not stem from the diversity per se, but from the social-cognitive state (i.e. social capital) that moderates in this diversity-sharing relationship. In addition to the conceptual deductions, we conducted a series of semi-structured interviews in a real-life group setting as a preliminary endorsement for our theoretical exploration; this effort serves as a setout in assisting the illustrative conceptual deductions but not an attempt to be one large-scaled empirical piece of testing that should consider the generalizability more seriously. Implications for group practices and group dynamics in knowledge-sharing imperatives are discussed finally.

ABSTRACT This article seeks to construct and examine a model of entrepreneurial learning in incubation programmes by investigating focal tenants’ proactive leveraging of incubator-tenant social capital. Few have examined the interrelationships between social capital, interorganizational learning and incubation from a perspective treating tenant firms as focal actors. Surveys were collected from incubation programmes in Taiwan, where innovation and knowledge-based entrepreneurship is a critical success factor for both social and economic progress. Data were analysed by multiple regression and structural equation modelling. Results indicate that tenants’ proactive utilization of tenant-incubator social capital positively influences interorganizational learning mechanisms (OLM), which in turn transforms the benefit of social relationships into tenants’ performance, in terms of technological capability, managerial competence and satisfaction with (the) incubation programme. Theoretically, this article complements interorganizational network and interorganizational relation perspectives of social capital to understand the complex entrepreneurial learning, value creation and appropriation for entrepreneurial firms in incubation programmes. We argue that strong relationship and network contents with the hub organization can complement weakness in structural status. Practically, design for strategic networking practices, interorganizational learning management for capability building and innovation and policy considerations are discussed.