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Innovating global value chains : creation of the netbook market by Taiwanese firms Kawakami, Momoko 44702 549.0902224 JEL:L63 - Microelectronics; Computers; Communications Equipment JEL:O51 - U.S.; Canada JEL:O53 - Asia including Middle East Taiwan Information services industry Computer Industrial technology Marketing Market share Industrial management Disruptive innovation Latecomer firms Global value chains The PC industry application/pdf IDP000325_001 This paper explores the process of creation of the netbook market by Taiwanese firms as an example of a disruptive innovation by latecomer firms. As an analytical framework, I employ the global value chain perspective to capture the dynamics of vertical inter-firm relationships that drive some firms in the chain to change the status quo of the industry. I then divide the process of the emergence of the netbook market into three consecutive stages, i.e. (1) the launch of the first-generation netbook by a Taiwanese firm named ASUSTeK, (2) the response of the two powerful platform leaders of the industry, Intel and Microsoft Intel, to ASUSTeK’s innovation, and (3) the market entry by another powerful Taiwanese firm, Acer, and explain how Taiwanese firms broke the Intel-centric market and tapped into the market-creating innovation opportunities that had been suppressed by the two powerful platform leaders. I also show that the creation of the netbook industry was an evolutionary process in which a series of responses by different industry players led to changes in the status quo of the industry. technical report Institute of Developing Economies　(IDE-JETRO) 2012-02-01 VoR application/pdf IDE Discussion Paper 325 IDE Discussion Paper https://ir.ide.go.jp/record/37849/files/IDP000325_001.pdf https://doi.org/10.20561/00037844 http://hdl.handle.net/2344/1114 https://ir.ide.go.jp/records/37849 eng 台湾 Copyrights 日本貿易振興機構（ジェトロ）アジア経済研究所 / Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) http://www.ide.go.jp