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ABSTRACT
The global thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) manufacturers concentrate in Korea, Japan and Taiwan. In view of growing rapidly of demand in the world, the competition of TFT-LCD manufacturers has been a fierce phenomenon. The most important subject for every TFT-LCD manufacturer administrator is how to make the best disposition of resources and create more and more profits. This study applied the window analysis of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the dynamic performance in TFT-LCD manufacturers from 2002 to 2007. Korea, Japan and Taiwan TFT-LCD manufacturers are the study object in this research via the annual financial statement of the ten manufacturers and the relevant trend analysis in the public statement. The study results show that the Innolux has the highest management performance, next are LG Display and Samsung.
Keywords: Thin Film Transistor-Liquid Crystal Display (TFT-LCD), Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Management Performance, Window Analysis
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1. INTRODUCTION
The global recession affects transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) industry all over the world including Taiwan. However, Korea replaced Taiwan as the top one TFT-LCD manufacturer. The Chinese massive market would be the next emerging competition. It would be very interesting to analyze the TFT-LCD development in Asia countries such as Taiwan, Korea and Japan in terms of performance evaluation and suggest possible improvements for TFT-LCD key players. At present, Korean, Taiwan and Japan are the countries that are most active in the development of flat panel displays. It is expected that the market opportunities of LCD TV will drive another development wave of TFT-LCD factories, the market competition will be more fierce and only by effective input of resource, can the manufacturers win the competition among the internationally top factories [5]. Through the data of invested resources and the output of global TFT-LCD manufacturers, this study aims to measure the performance of global TFT-LCD manufacturers and carry out positioning analysis to know whether the production conditions of TFT-LCD manufacturers in the world have reached the optimum allocation of resources. The purpose of the study is as follows:
l Assess the relative efficiency and find the trend of global TFT-LCD manufacturers via the method of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and Window Analysis for benchmarking TFT-LCD manufacturers' performance.
l Discuss the...