The Way of Joining Consortia Leads to a Good Performance: A Case of Taiwan Bike Industry

This The article use visually social network analysis (SNA) to present networking activities of Taiwan´s bike and components firms interacting in domestic market. The study uses data from questionnaires of sixty-five bike and component firms to explore the influence of organizational learning, relationship quality and network position on organizational performance. Results show that relationship quality positively affects organizational learning and organizational performance, and network position partially affects organizational performance. It is worth noted that a non-A-TEAM member (say IDEAL, coded GB_01) also had a higher in-degree and closeness centrality, and a better performance as well. Here is a key point to be re-thinking: is joining consortia the best way to lead a good performance? The answer is not fully supported by the case of Taiwan´s bike industry.