title: Advantage management strategy in competition via technological race perspective: empirical evidence from the Taiwanese manufacturing industry.
abstract: This study investigated the advantage management strategies of a firm regarding the technological race in the manufacturing sector. This is to reveal whether firms adopt a catch-up or leapfrogging strategy in the competition for innovation. The results show that competition is fierce in the Taiwanese manufacturing industry. Taiwanese manufacturing firms (mostly SMEs) tend to adopt the "catch-up" strategy to keep up with their competitors in order to remain in the technological race. The result indicates that, under financial constraints, Taiwanese manufacturing firms attempt to invest in R&D to catch up with their rivals or to avoid being eliminated from the race.
authors.affiliation: Department of Business Management, National Taipei University of Technology, No. 1, Sec. 3, Zhongxiao E. Road, Taipei 10608, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Tsu-Yi
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.affiliation: Institute of Services and Technology Management, National Taipei University of Technology, No. 1, Sec. 3, Zhongxiao E. Road, Taipei 10608, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Yu-Ju
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Hsiao
authors.affiliation: Department of Business Management, National Taipei University of Technology, No. 1, Sec. 3, Zhongxiao E. Road, Taipei 10608, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Shih-Wei
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D004465:Economic Competition / Q000639:trends; D036262:Empirical Research; D006801:Humans; D062069:Inventions / Q000639:trends; D066192:Manufacturing Industry / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D013624:Taiwan