廠商的時空策略與動態學習：新竹科學園區積體電路工業為例

Firm's Time-Space Strategy and Dynamic Learning: A Case Study of the Semiconductor Industry in the HSIP

徐進鈺(Jinn-Yuh Hsu)

《城市與設計學報》 11&12期 (2000/03) Pp. 67-96

https://doi.org/10.30008/CD.200003.0003

摘要

本文的目的在於以新竹科學工業園區中積體電路工業為例，探討在垂直分工生產體系中，廠商如何透過時空策略，一方面解決交易過程中的廠商協調的障礙，另一方面則是進行有效的互動學習。然而，時間與空間不僅是資源(resource)，同時也是限制(constraint)。當廠商利用在時間與空間上的策略，取得競爭上的優勢與學習效果的同時，必須克服由於時間與空間的抗阻所帶來在溝通與協調上的問題。這種在垂直分工的生產體系中，不同生產階段的廠商如何透過有效的溝通方式，加以協調並整合，成為生產體系中互動交易與學習的關鍵。特別是在生產流程中，有些上下游生產階段（例如設計與製造）在新的產品或製程出現時，經常需要上下游間有緊密的溝通，而這種溝通的形式經常必須仰賴於雙方的技術團隊面對面溝通與討論。本文利用對於竹科的高科技廠商進行深入訪談的結果，借用時間地理學(time-geography)的概念，企圖指出廠商彼此之間時空行徑的疊合與成對(coupling)，將是在當前以時間為主要競爭策略的新競爭時代中，主要建構優勢的關鍵。這也呼應了在有關產業組織與新工業空間相關文獻中，有關產業聚集的動態學習、調整的優勢效果的理論。

關鍵字

時空雙重性 ； 生產體系 ； 動態學習 ； 新竹科學園區

並列摘要

This research, based on a case study of the semiconductor industry in the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park (HSIP), aims to explore how firms in vertical disintegrated production system take advantage of time-space strategy to handle the barriers of inter-firm coordination, and more importantly enhance interactive learning. Time and Space, as the basic dimensions of human behavior, are both resources and constraints for firm's activities. While firms exploit the time-space flexibility of vertical disintegration, they have to meet the demands of effective coordination of activities in time-space framework. The different firms in the sequential stages of the production process are obligated to communicate frequently to ensure the smooth transactions between them. In the process of operation, firms exchange ideas and diffuse knowledge among the transacting firms, thus create the possibility of interactive learning. In the meantime, spatial proximity is used as a strategy to enhance the successful communication among the firms in the flexibly adjusted system. It is argued that the flexibility of the industrial system is paradoxically based on the spatial fixity. Illustrating by the case of the semiconductor industry in the HSIP, the research elaborate on Giddens' time-geography framework to demonstrate the time-space duality in the flexibly specialized industrial system.

並列關鍵字

time-space duality ； industrial system ； interactive learning ； the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park