We examine how quality competition affects the relationship between market size and industry structure at product level using evidence from U.S. hotel industry. Starting in early 1980s, for business travelers became more based on variable less fixed costs, scale intensive. Since then, increases have been met by more, but smaller, hotels travel destinations continued to be larger personal destin...

Technology in VLSI industry has improved in accordance with moore’s law , so density of transistor in Integrated Circuit(IC) is increased . Testing this IC with the bed of nail technique becomes very difficult so solution to this was given by IEEE 1149.1 boundary scan standard also called as Joint Test Access Group(JTAG) using which interconnects between the IC mounted on PCB was tested without...

This paper examines transition in the level of competition in the Japanese life insurance industry over the last ten years. We estimate the first order condition for profit maximizing insurance oligopolies to obtain the degree of non-competition and collusion. Estimation results suggest: 1) mutual companies, like stock companies, seek to maximize their own profits rather than pay out dividends ...

The development of IC industry in Taiwan began with a technology transfer from the U.S. based RCA Company, which was conducted by Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). ITRI’s Technology Transfer Team (TTT) members were first incubated in the National Laboratories at ITRI, and then dispatched to spin-off companies in the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park (HSIP). Many of these TTT me...

The design new production and logistics process in a joint venture is crucial to its business success. Joint ventures are common in IC industry, however, much time and resources are used in handling negotiation, which ultimately can delay the implementation of joint venture itself, thereby causing tremendous expected losses to both parties. Therefore, we propose a virtual collaborative framewor...

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