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that steward-like managers serve as a driving force, rather than a hindrance, to the
entrepreneurial orientation of family business.
For the one article in the field of IM (information management) by Li, Chang, Hsu, and
Liao, it selects two representative journals of information and management fields in
Taiwan—
Journal of Information Management
and
NTU Management Review
, and analyzes
the trends of their published topics in the past decade for historical retrospect and future
outlook. The findings reveal that the focus of IM research has been changed from
applications of IT in enterprises to personal life and personal mobile devices. Their study
also discovers that most IM research emphasizes the actual applications in industries. With
the advance of data validation tool, the prevalence of big data analysis, and the researcher’s
pursue of research reliability and validity; empirical research with the data collection and
verification is dwindling and an increasing amount of field study and database analysis have
entered into the research arena.
For the one article in the field of TIM (technology and innovation management) by
Hsiao, Ou, and Su, it employs bricolage as a theoretical basis and explores how low-power
actors could reconstruct resources to respond to constraints imposed by high-power actors.
This article examines the case of Advantech’s response to its German high-power competitor
in the industrial computer market in Mainland China, and observes how the low-power actor
inversed the high-power actor’s advantage into fragileness while constructing resources to
change its relative power position. They propose a “power-inversing” model for resource
construction, which recognizes the inevitable weakness of the high-power actors and
enriches the diversity of bricolage theory. Their research also suggests three principles of
bricolage: recognizing weakness from the strongest, converting foes into friends (so as to
obtain resources), and shifting the power dynamics. By reversing the high-power actor’s
stumbling blocks into stepping stones, it might not be impossible to change the law of
competition.
For the one article in the field of SM (strategy management) by Tseng and Hung, it
draws on a strategy-as-practice perspective to examine the articulation of agenda setting, a
key activity important for both strategy meetings and open strategy. The target of this
research is the 9th National Science and Technology Conference held by the Ministry of