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Electronics Industry (electronics + industry)
Kinds of Electronics Industry Selected AbstractsCO-EVOLUTION OF THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY: POLICY INTERACTIONS ACROSS THE PACIFICPACIFIC ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 4 2007An-Chi Tung From the world distribution of the major IT producing and using firms, and the fabrication and trading network, the prominence of the Pacific Rim nexus stands out. The comparative advantages and trade gains of individual economies are decided by the impact of the institutional and policy matrix. In turn, their competing yet complementary relations give policy analysis a historical perspective. The policy performance interplay yields new insight into both how the world stands, and what the national policy should be, other things being given. [source] EXPORTING AND PRODUCTIVITY: A FIRM-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF THE TAIWAN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRYTHE DEVELOPING ECONOMIES, Issue 3 2003Chih-Hai YANG Based on the panel data of Taiwanese electronics firms, this paper explores the relationship between exporting and productivity. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed positively correlated. The causality tests show causality from productivity to exporting and vice versa, implying that self-selection and learning-by-exporting effects coexist in the Taiwan electronics industry, while the learning-by-exporting effect is less supported. Exporting also has a positive impact on the productivity growth of firms, while the effect diminishes gradually after entering foreign markets. Decomposing the productivity growth shows that the reallocation effect accounts for only 20 per cent compared to the own-effect share of 80 per cent, which is mostly contributed by firms that continually export. [source] Industrial Diversification and Its Impact on Productivity Growth in Taiwan's Electronics Industry,ASIAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Issue 4 2005Show-Ling Jang O12; L63 The present study attempts to link plant-level production diversification to productivity growth in Taiwan's electronics industry. An account of the role of the Taiwanese government over the last 2 decades leading to the take-off of its electronics industry is briefly discussed. We reviewed production activities of more than 20 000 Taiwanese electronics plants during the period 1992,1999. In an inter-industry comparison, we find that at the four-digit and seven-digit industry levels, Taiwanese electronics production plants exhibit a significantly higher degree of product diversification than plants in the manufacturing sector as a whole. Econometric results positively identify diversification as a source of significant productivity growth across all electronics plants classified in the related industry groups. [source] Agglomeration Effects versus Policy Effects: The Case of the Electronics Industry in MalaysiaASIAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Issue 3 2002Ken Togo The present study analyses investments within the Malaysian electronics industry in 1991 to assess the effectiveness of development policy in light of strong agglomeration effects in the electronics industry. We ,nd that agglomeration and the use of industrial estates as development policy have had positive effects on ,rms' location choice. However, agglomeration has a much larger effect than industrial estates. In addition, we ,nd that the marginal effect of industrial estates is positively correlated with the degree of agglomeration. This suggests that improvement of problems of regional inequality by industry estates would be very dif,cult in reality. [source] Perceived job stress of women workers in diverse manufacturing industriesHUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS IN MANUFACTURING & SERVICE INDUSTRIES, Issue 3 2005Jinky Leilanie Lu An investigation of the impact of organizational factors on perceived job stress among women workers in the IT-dominated garment and electronics industries in the Philippines was undertaken. The sample included 23 establishments with 630 women respondents. Questionnaires, walk-through surveys of the industries, and interviews were done. The workplace factors included the content of the job, the nature of tasks, job autonomy, hazard exposure, and management and supervisory styles. Chi-square analysis showed that there were interactions among the organizational factors (P = 0.05 and 0.10). These factors included the need for better quality and new products; tasks requiring intense concentration; exposure to radiation, chemical, noise, and vapor hazards; standing for prolonged periods of time; and highly monitored, repetitious work. Workers experienced job stress (P = .05) when they were subjected to low job autonomy, poor work quality, close monitoring, and hazardous work pressure. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Hum Factors Man 15: 275,291, 2005. [source] The challenge of hazardous waste management in a sustainable environment: insights from electronic recovery lawsCORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, Issue 1 2005J. Halluite Abstract New and pending regulations requiring product take-back by manufacturers at the time of disposal are intended to create a new era of industrial ecology and environmental sustainability. However, the intended benefits of the current legislation can be confounded by obsolescence in product design based upon advances in science and technology and also by the introduction of more environmentally benign product designs. Recent changes in legislation are identified and, based upon an extensive industry survey, their resultant likely impacts on consumer electronics are considered. This industry study illustrates that unless the impacted products simultaneously possess both stable designs and input requirements then significant secondary environmental issues related to the waste storage will be encountered. Inherently, these issues cause serious societal problems when hazardous substances are involved , which is the case with many products from the electronics industry. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [source] THE PROCYCLICAL LEVERAGE EFFECT OF COLLATERAL VALUE ON BANK LOANS,EVIDENCE FROM THE TRANSACTION DATA OF TAIWANECONOMIC INQUIRY, Issue 2 2007NAN-KUANG CHEN We investigated the empirical relationship between firms' collateral values and land-secured loans over asset price cycles. A simultaneous equation model of loan demand and supply was estimated using a transaction-level data set from Taiwan. The data set contains collateral information and identifies lenders and borrowers. We found that the value of collateralizable assets has positive and significant effects on loan amounts and that the leverage effect of collateral is procyclical to asset price cycles. Firms in the electronics industry, the star industry in the sample period, are found to borrow more than other firms do at each marginal dollar of collateral. (JEL C50, E30, G20) [source] Overview of polymer micro/nanomanufacturing for biomedical applicationsADVANCES IN POLYMER TECHNOLOGY, Issue 4 2008Allen Y. Yi Abstract Micro/nanotechnology is initiated from the electronics industry. In recent years, it has been extended to micro/nanoelectromechanic system for producing miniature devices based on silicon and semiconductor materials. However, the use of these hard materials alone is inappropriate for many biomedical devices. Soft polymeric materials possess many attractive properties such as high toughness and recyclability. Some possess excellent biocompatibility, are biodegradable, and can provide various biofunctionalities. Proper combinations of micro/nanoelectronics, polymers, and biomolecules can lead to new and affordable medical devices. In this paper, we briefly review several cleanroom and noncleanroom techniques related to micro/nanomanufacturing of polymeric materials. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Adv Polym Techn 27:188,198, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/adv.20134 [source] Delineating the "Ease of Doing Business" Construct within the Supplier,Customer InterfaceJOURNAL OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT, Issue 2 2007Gary Stading SUMMARY The current research provides insight into the "ease of doing business" construct. Factor analysis of survey responses of supply managers in the electronics industry was used to test the proposed "ease of doing business" construct, which includes the three dimensions , information and material services, financial contract services and personal relations services. Results support a link between a customer's assessment of a supplier's "ease of doing business" and the amount of business conducted with that supplier. The attributes supported by this research provide the means for managers to improve and grow business with customers. [source] Insider ownership and firm performance in Taiwan's electronics industry: a technical efficiency perspectiveMANAGERIAL AND DECISION ECONOMICS, Issue 5 2005Her-Jiun Sheu This paper applies agency theory to explore the relationship between insider stock ownership and firm performance, particularly in terms of technical efficiency. Insiders are further classified into executives, outside directors, and large shareholders to conduct a detailed study. Six-year (1996,2001) panel data of 416 Taiwanese listed electronics firms are examined by the stochastic production frontier approach. It is observed that raising the executive-to-insider holding ratio first causes a decrease and then an increase in technical efficiency, forming a U-shaped relationship. However, the board-to-insider holding ratio is negatively associated with technical efficiency. The results indicate that equity ownership of top officers in high-tech firms should be encouraged to enhance firm productivity. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Facilitating substance phase-out through material information systems and improving environmental impacts in the recycling stage of a productNATURAL RESOURCES FORUM, Issue 3 2010Daniel PaskaArticle first published online: 4 AUG 2010 Abstract The amount of electrical and electronic products is increasing rapidly, and this inevitably leads to the generation of large quantities of waste from these goods. Some of the generated e-waste ends up in regions with sub-standard recycling systems and may be processed under poor conditions. During uncontrolled incineration, halogenated dioxins and furans can be generated from brominated and chlorinated compounds in the products. In order to reduce the health and environmental risks involved in the recycling stage of the life cycle of electronics, an effective design-for-environment process must be established during the product development phase. Knowledge of the chemical substances in the product is crucial to being able to make informed decisions. Through full knowledge of the material content of procured components, phase-outs of unwanted substances, such as halogenated substances, can be performed in an effective manner. Therefore, information is the key to success in phasing-out substances; facilitating compliance of legal provisions for manufacturers of electrical and electronic devices; and improving the environmental footprint of products as they reach the end of the life cycle. After an introduction to the challenges of electronics waste management, this paper describes supply chain information systems and how they are used to facilitate substance phase-outs in the electronics industry. Sony Ericsson has been working with phase-outs of unwanted substances since it was founded in 2001. Through the introduction of a material declaration system that keeps track of all substances in the components used in the company's products, Sony Ericsson has been able to replace unwanted substances to improve environmental impacts at the recycling stage of a product. [source] Improving the Quality of Information Flows in the Backend of a Product Development Process: a Case StudyQUALITY AND RELIABILITY ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL, Issue 2 2005Jaring Boersma Abstract Considerable research has gone into designing effective product development processes. This, coupled with the increasing need for products that are able to deliver reliable, complex functionality with a high degree of innovation, presents a major challenge to modern day industries in the business of developing products. In order to incorporate relevant field experience in the design and manufacturing of new products, increasingly detailed information needs to be retrieved from the market in a very short amount of time. In one particular consumer electronics industry, business process models describing the information flow in the backend of the product development process indicated massive data loss and also serious data quality degradation. This paper attempts to show how such losses can be mitigated and also proposes a business model that can adequately capture information of a higher quality and in a more structured manner. The end result will be a product development process that provides better feedback on current product performance and is more responsive to future market needs. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Quality of Information Flow in the Backend of a Product Development Process: a Case StudyQUALITY AND RELIABILITY ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL, Issue 4 2004Jaring Boersma Abstract The increasing need for products that are able to reliably deliver complex functionality with a high degree of innovation presents a major challenge to the modern day product creation processes. In order to be able to use information on the field behaviour of previous products in the design of new products, increasingly detailed information needs to be retrieved from the market in an increasingly shorter time. The purpose of this study is to analyse, in a typical case in the consumer electronics industry, whether the underlying business process is able to generate this information with adequate quality sufficiently quickly. Information models of the company's service centre and call centre were developed using the concepts of maturity index on reliability. The results showed that the structure of the information handling process resulted in a massive data loss (up to 60% of the data gathered by the service centres) and also in serious data quality degradation. Would this information have not been lost, it could have been used by development teams for preventive and corrective actions. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] STOCK MARKET VALUATIONS OF R&D AND ELECTRONICS FIRMS DURING TAIWAN'S RECENT ECONOMIC TRANSITIONTHE DEVELOPING ECONOMIES, Issue 1 2006CHAOSHIN CHIAO G12; O33 The objective of the present study is to investigate the market valuation of Research and Development (R&D) investments in the Taiwanese stock market from July 1988 to June 2002. The motivation stems from Taiwan's recent economic transition from a labor-intensive, then to a capital-intensive, and currently to a technology-based economy. The results support not only the existence, but also the persistence of R&D-associated mispricing. More importantly, it has become stronger as the electronics industry gradually dominates the economy. First, R&D-intensive stocks tend to outperform stocks with little or no R&D. Second, the R&D-intensity effect cannot fully be attributed to firm size. Third, the R&D-intensity effect is more pronounced for firms in the electronics industry after 1996. [source] EXPORTING AND PRODUCTIVITY: A FIRM-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF THE TAIWAN ELECTRONICS INDUSTRYTHE DEVELOPING ECONOMIES, Issue 3 2003Chih-Hai YANG Based on the panel data of Taiwanese electronics firms, this paper explores the relationship between exporting and productivity. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed positively correlated. The causality tests show causality from productivity to exporting and vice versa, implying that self-selection and learning-by-exporting effects coexist in the Taiwan electronics industry, while the learning-by-exporting effect is less supported. Exporting also has a positive impact on the productivity growth of firms, while the effect diminishes gradually after entering foreign markets. Decomposing the productivity growth shows that the reallocation effect accounts for only 20 per cent compared to the own-effect share of 80 per cent, which is mostly contributed by firms that continually export. [source] Industrial Diversification and Its Impact on Productivity Growth in Taiwan's Electronics Industry,ASIAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Issue 4 2005Show-Ling Jang O12; L63 The present study attempts to link plant-level production diversification to productivity growth in Taiwan's electronics industry. An account of the role of the Taiwanese government over the last 2 decades leading to the take-off of its electronics industry is briefly discussed. We reviewed production activities of more than 20 000 Taiwanese electronics plants during the period 1992,1999. In an inter-industry comparison, we find that at the four-digit and seven-digit industry levels, Taiwanese electronics production plants exhibit a significantly higher degree of product diversification than plants in the manufacturing sector as a whole. Econometric results positively identify diversification as a source of significant productivity growth across all electronics plants classified in the related industry groups. [source] Agglomeration Effects versus Policy Effects: The Case of the Electronics Industry in MalaysiaASIAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Issue 3 2002Ken Togo The present study analyses investments within the Malaysian electronics industry in 1991 to assess the effectiveness of development policy in light of strong agglomeration effects in the electronics industry. We ,nd that agglomeration and the use of industrial estates as development policy have had positive effects on ,rms' location choice. However, agglomeration has a much larger effect than industrial estates. In addition, we ,nd that the marginal effect of industrial estates is positively correlated with the degree of agglomeration. This suggests that improvement of problems of regional inequality by industry estates would be very dif,cult in reality. [source] The Electronics Industries of the Asia,Pacific: Exploiting International Production Networks for Economic DevelopmentASIAN-PACIFIC ECONOMIC LITERATURE, Issue 1 2001Mike Hobday Although the electronics industry has been one of the main driving forces behind the export-led growth of the newly industrialising economies (NIEs) of the Asia,Pacific, there has until recently been little empirical research showing how the various NIEs managed to enter international markets and gain technology. This paper describes the overall characteristics of the electronics sector in the NIEs, highlighting the main organisational innovations which have enabled local firms to enter international markets and acquire foreign technology. The OEM (original equipment manufacture) system, prevalent in East Asia, is contrasted with the TNC (transnational company)-led growth dominant in Southeast Asia. The paper also discusses the emerging ,contract electronics manufacturing', or CEM, which could threaten traditional OEM and TNC-subsidiary production in the NIEs. The electronics sector proves to be a rich source of empirical material, both for understanding the processes of economic development and for illustrating the role of latecomer enterprise in engaging with and exploiting international production networks. [source] New instruments , old practices?BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, Issue 6 2006The implications of environmental management systems, extended producer responsibility for design for the environment Abstract As the focus of environmental policy and management is shifting from cleaner production at the process level towards greener products, there is a need for new kinds of policy instruments and initiatives. Environmental management systems (EMSs) and extended producer responsibility (EPR) systems are efforts to overcome the limitations of the traditional regulatory approach. In this paper, I illustrate how EMSs and EPR systems have influenced the emergence of greener products in three case companies. These case studies are complemented by results from a survey on design for the environment in the electrical and electronics industry. Both the case studies and the survey indicate that the linkage between EMSs and product development is weak or completely missing. Therefore, the mere existence of an EMS can hardly be used as a convincing indicator of the implementation of an environmentally friendly design process. The results regarding the EPR systems are more positive. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [source] Editorial: Special Issue on High-Permittivity Dielectric OxidesCHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION, Issue 2-3 2006C. Jones Abstract High-permittivity dielectric oxides is the theme of this Special Issue of Chemical Vapor Deposition. In this Editorial, Tony Jones recaps the search for an alternative to SiO2 as a dielectric layer for the electronics industry, and introduces the papers presented in the Special Issue as an overview of current research directions in the MOCVD and ALD of a wide range of high- k dielectric oxides. The breadth of materials and resultant electronic properties reported confirm that the jury is still out regarding the final choice of oxide for the next generation of microelectronics. [source] China's Industrial Policy in Relation to Electronics ManufacturingCHINA AND WORLD ECONOMY, Issue 3 2007Zhongxiu Zhao F14; L52; L63 Abstract China has become the biggest exporter of electronic products in the world. Government policy intervention has contributed significantly to the rapid expansion of the electronics industry. The present paper examines the evolutionary development of industrial policies related to the electronics industry in China and the impacts of such policies on the shaping of the industry. In particular, the relationship between foreign funded enterprises and domestic firms are examined in detail. The future trend of the industry is also discussed in the paper, and the policy focus of the Chinese Government is predicted. [source] | |||||||||||||||||||