| dc.description.abstract | In Taiwan, small and medium enterprises made so many economic miracles, but those businesses’ average life-time are seven to thirteen years. However if the business could keep going that it usually have a great success after twenty or thirty years. Most of the small and medium enterprises are family business, and they almost centralize in labor-intensive and mature technology industry. Although they are running well, they all have same latent problems. First, they lack of a good accounting system and financial planner. Second, they don’t have expert mangers and a suitable manager system. Then, they only have limited knowledge and they can’t do the independent research and development. Fourth, they are weak in marketing themselves and the products. Last, they have the issue of successors. At the same time, they also face many external menaces such as globalization, Relation between Mainland China and Taiwan, political factors, economic cycle.
Now, the information transmits more quickly, diversified, and more open. Technology is more mature and cost lower, the customer’s demand are so diversified. All business or organizations face more problems and changes. Presently, “Theory of Constraints” (TOC) is a general solution to solver their difficult position.
According Small and Medium Enterprise Administration (MOEA), in Taiwan, the ratio of small and medium enterprises to all enterprises are 97.67% in the 2012. Then the ratio of occupied population to all occupied population is 78.12%. It means there are 80% occupied population work in a small and medium business. Therefore, how to keep those small and medium enterprises grow stable and even assist them to transfer is a very import issue because it will influence 80% of occupied population and families.
This research will do analysis the environment of industry, and use “Theory of Constraints” (TOC). Then take “X company” with a case study, to discover core-problem and recommend some solution to make them grow stable.
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