TY - GEN
T1 - How contract manufacturers compete with their clients
T2 - 1st International Technology Management Conference, ITMC 2011
AU - Kuo, Ting Kuei
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper attempts to explore the primary capability configuration in business transition. The business transition from Contract Manufacturing to Own Brand Manufacturing inherently changes the importance of each source of innovation, including lead users, customers, suppliers, external scientific expertise, internal R&D, universities and competitors. Some of the innovation capabilities may no longer be available or useful while new capabilities may need to be built up to generate the right ideas and respond to market demands. How to manage the change in the reconfiguration of innovation capability appears to be vital for firms' survival and sustainable advantage whereas the emergence of the knowledge economy, intense global competition and considerable technological advance has seen become increasingly central to competitiveness. How to manage the change appears to be vital for firms' survival because innovation is widely acknowledged to be a major source of firm growth and key to survive its competition.
AB - This paper attempts to explore the primary capability configuration in business transition. The business transition from Contract Manufacturing to Own Brand Manufacturing inherently changes the importance of each source of innovation, including lead users, customers, suppliers, external scientific expertise, internal R&D, universities and competitors. Some of the innovation capabilities may no longer be available or useful while new capabilities may need to be built up to generate the right ideas and respond to market demands. How to manage the change in the reconfiguration of innovation capability appears to be vital for firms' survival and sustainable advantage whereas the emergence of the knowledge economy, intense global competition and considerable technological advance has seen become increasingly central to competitiveness. How to manage the change appears to be vital for firms' survival because innovation is widely acknowledged to be a major source of firm growth and key to survive its competition.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80052987374&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ITMC.2011.5996022
DO - 10.1109/ITMC.2011.5996022
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052987374
SN - 9781612849522
T3 - Proceedings of the 1st International Technology Management Conference, ITMC 2011
SP - 522
EP - 531
BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Technology Management Conference, ITMC 2011
Y2 - 27 June 2011 through 30 June 2011
ER -
