https://ir.lib.ncu.edu.tw/handle/987654321/380 Search the Channel s https://ir.lib.ncu.edu.tw/simple-search https://ir.lib.ncu.edu.tw/handle/987654321/51659 title: The choice of foreign market entry mode: An analysis of the dynamic probit model abstract: Based on the official survey data of Taiwanese FDI in China, this study investigates the transaction cost determinants of foreign market entry mode choice. In contrast to the existing literature, this paper constructs a panel data set and makes a dynamic probit analysis on the mode choice between wholly-owned subsidiaries and joint ventures. Empirical results indicate that state dependence between current and past modes plays an important role in determining entry mode choice. However, the impact of state dependence will be reduced significantly if the mode adopted in the previous period is associated with poor performance of the parent firm. There is strong linkage between mode performance and future mode choice. Evidence also shows that the hypothesized influences of transaction cost factors on entry mode choice gain support in the dynamic choice process. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. <br> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:01:45 GMT https://ir.lib.ncu.edu.tw/handle/987654321/51658 title: Searching for a balance: work-family practices, work-team design, and organizational performance abstract: The crucial impact of work-family issues on employee's well-being has been recognized and responded with a variety of research in field of organizational behavior. However, few studies examine the impact of how work-family practices affect productivity at firm-level. Following the research stream of strategic human resource management, we proposed that work-family may form the norm of reciprocity, which is a more sophisticated and more critical, internal social-structure component to enable organizational performance. We also examine the contingent effect, work-team structure - on the extent to which the work-family practices are appreciated by employees - and then create complementarities. We conduct a longitudinal study and utilize a data set of 204 Taiwanese public-traded firms to test our hypotheses. The results show that, contrary to our prediction, utilizing work-family practices does not have a significant positive impact on organizational productivity. However, the most important finding of this study is that there are synergies between work-family practices and work-team design on organizational productivity. Work-team design is an important situation in which the returns of work-family practices can be enhanced. <br> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:01:43 GMT https://ir.lib.ncu.edu.tw/handle/987654321/51657 title: Human resource practices and individual knowledge-sharing behavior - an empirical study for Taiwanese R&D professionals abstract: Knowledge sharing is of central importance for the research and development (R&D) process. Because the process is extremely complicated and an employee possesses expertise only in a specific area, knowledge will not be available to others until the owner makes the objects of the knowledge available. It is, therefore, valuable to investigate how R&D professionals share knowledge with one another. This study explores the relationship between human resource (HR) practices and individual knowledge sharing in Taiwan's high-tech industries. The cross-sectional dataset comes from a sample of 368 R&D professionals from nine different high-tech companies. The findings indicate that the factor representing the perceived self-efficacy of knowledge sharing plays a very important role in the integrated knowledge-sharing model we developed. R&D professionals who believe that sharing will influence their performance will be more willing to share knowledge, and thus an effective sharing of knowledge will be more likely to take place. The results also show that HR practices, incentive compensation plans, performance appraisal systems, and face-to-face communication foster knowledge sharing among R&D professionals through the mediation of perceived self-efficacy and the willingness of knowledge sharing. <br> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:01:41 GMT https://ir.lib.ncu.edu.tw/handle/987654321/51656 title: THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT MOTIVATION FACTORS ON KNOWLEDGE-SHARING WILLINGNESS AND BEHAVIOR abstract: The main purpose in this study was to examine the correlations between knowledge-sharing motivation, willingness, and behavior of volunteers and paid staff in different types of social welfare nonprofit organizations. Statistical analysis of empirical data from 375 participants' questionnaires revealed the following results. Only one of the hygiene factors, extrinsic motivation, was found to be unrelated to willingness to share knowledge. All other hygiene factors were significantly related to knowledge-sharing willingness behavior, and the intrinsic motivation factor had the strongest influence on knowledge-sharing willingness and behavior. <br> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:01:40 GMT