The relationship among industrial structure core resource and ambidextrous strategy: case of a financial information software corporation

Abstract

The environment of financial software industry has been influenced by the government encouraged securities E-trading in 1997 hence the purpose of this study is looking into how does the company should choose appropriate strategies to cope with the changes in the industry environment through enteral core resources and resource attributes in order to achieve the company sustainable operating The study find that: (1) The differences of industry structure between the period of industry developing and the period of government encouraged E-trading are the product differentiation is going down on the contrary the product integration and the diversification is going up However there is not obvious change between two periods on industry concentration (2) The core resources have attribution of imperfect imitability、transferability、appropriability and irreplaceability The differences of corporation core resources and resource attributes between the period of industry developing and the period of government encouraged E-trading are financial engineering and code writing capabilities have imitability、transferability and appropriability in addition the capital、plant and equipment have irreplaceability However the resource attributes has replaced after the government encouraged E-trading and the result came out with the company operator thinking capability has imperfect imitability、transferability、appropriability and irreplaceability (3) The company should consider its own resource attributes to make the ambidextrous strategy This strategy is implemented in order which is upgrading available product in priority then exploring the chances in the other industry

Date of Award	2021
Original language	English
Supervisor	Wen-Ting Lin (Supervisor)