Open innovation is based on a different knowledge landscape, with a different logic about the sources and uses of ideas. It implies that firms increasingly rely on external sources of innovation by emphasizing these ideas and resources. Recently, really good ideas are coming from outside the organization, especially in the high-tech industry. Using datasets from the UK biotechnology industry, t...

Despite the emergence of event driven business process management, smart business networks, social networks, etc. as important research areas in management, for all the attractiveness of these concepts, two major challenges remain around their design and the partner selection rules while learning from interaction events. While smart business networks should provide advantages due to the quick c...

Knowledge transfer (KT) is an evolutionary process that requires embedding into and assistance from organizational culture. Since the determinants and influence path of KT regarding cultural change are not clear, this study designs a path model from organizational culture to KT through organizational characteristics. The findings demonstrate that the sociability factors of organizational cultur...

This article surveys a new generation of analytical tools for capacity planning and management, especially in high-tech industries such as semiconductors, electronics and bio-techs. The objectives of the article are to (1) identify fundamental theory driving current research in capacity management, (2) review emerging models in operations research, game theory, and economics that address strate...

Since the reform and opening up, the growth mode of China’s economy has essentially featured a heavy reliance on investment and exports and intense input of low-cost resources and factors. Such a mode was reasonable to some extent when China lagged behind in economic development and its economic aggregate accounted for a relatively small proportion of the world economy. With China’s continuous ...

Global high-tech manufacturers are mainly located in newly industrialized countries, raising concerns about adverse health consequences from industrial pollution for people living nearby. We investigated the ecological association between respiratory mortality and the development of Taiwan's high-tech manufacturing, taking into account industrialization and socioeconomic development, for 19 cit...

In the past, the studies on knowledge sharing tended to be focused on the organization and few paid attention to the departments inside the organization. In this study, valid samples were collected from Taiwan’s 92 IC related firms in the high-tech industry through the Hierarchical Random Sampling method for empirical analysis. The non-linear fuzzy neural network is used due to its capacity in ...