為了在企業間分工中獲取更高的表現，理解如何適當地配置企業分工的決策權(decision-making rights)至關重要。過去的研究指出，企業與其外包夥伴之間的決策權分配是取決於企業與外包夥伴擁有多少知識。具體來說，如果企業比外包夥伴擁有更多的知識，那麼企業應該掌握更多的決策權。相反地，如果企業的外包夥伴擁有知識的程度越高，那麼企業就應該分配決策權給該外包夥伴。然而，在許多ICT（Information Communication Technologies）產業中，企業或其外包夥伴能否順利完成新產品開發，主要都會與半導體廠商那樣的第三方廠商知識有著密切關係。
換句話說，關於新產品開發的知識並不是屬於企業與其外包夥伴之間的一個內生變數，而應該視為存在於企業與其外包夥伴之外的一個外生變數。本研究延伸兩家企業的分工模式下的知識與決策權之相關論述，更進一步探討品牌企業將其液晶顯示器(LCD)的新產品開發外包給台灣代工廠商的時候，品牌廠商與台灣代工廠商之間的決策權分配與新產品開發表現之間的關係。同時，本研究主張在品牌廠商與台灣代工廠商那樣的兩家企業分工之下的決策權分配，會取決於雙方能夠獲取半導體驅動IC廠商那樣第三方廠商知識的「相對程度」。

To achieve higher performance in the interfirm division of labor, it is crucial to understand how to assign decision-making rights properly. Past research indicates that decision-making rights between a firm and its outsourcing partner are determined by how much knowledge is being held by the firm and its outsourcing partner.
Specifically, the more knowledge a firm has compared to its outsourcing partner, the more decision-making rights the firm should possess.
On the contrary, the more knowledge the firm’s outsourcing partner has, the more decision-making rights should be assigned to the firm’s outsourcing partner. However, in many ICT (Information Communication Technologies) industries, the knowledge of new product development is not possessed by either a firm or its outsourcing partner, but mainly provided by third-party firms such as semiconductor manufacturers.
In other words, knowledge is not an endogenous variable between a firm and its outsourcing partner, but should be regarded as an exogenous variable existing out of the boundary of a firm and its outsourcing partner.
By examining LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) product development projects carried out by brand firms which are outsourced to Taiwanese contract manufacturer, this study extends the debates of existing researches and discusses the relationship between decision-making rights and performance of new product development.
At the same time, this study emphasizes the notion that the decision-making rights between a brand firm and a Taiwanese contract manufacturer under an interfirm division of labor is determined by the comparative degrees of knowledge which is obtained from third-party firms such as driver IC semiconductor manufacturers.

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