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Strategic alliances between enterprises began from technical cooperation between American companies. In the recent decade or so, as the pace of economic globalization and industrial liberalization accelerated, strategic alliances in advanced industrial countries and enterprises of emerging industrialized countries, including Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, etc., have had a large growing trend. Due to faster speed in alliance formation, compared to the hierarchical organization, it is more flexible, has lower risks, requires less capital, and has more limited costs of human resources. Compared with the M&A (mergers and acquisitions) mode, manufacturers can complete a number of strategic alliances at the same time with lower cost. In terms of the market, the alliance has greater vicinity of social values, a whole culture, brand reputation, and other social control mechanisms, and the advantage of being more favorable to the high level of professional coordination between the manufacturers. In recent years, in the bank liberalization and internationalization trend, the market competition environment in Taiwan’s financial sector is becoming increasingly fierce and intense, resulting in a drastic reduction in operating and profit space and all banks to actively look for expansion pathways. Under this premise, along with the rise of the strategic alliance, the strategic alliance itself has become an important business strategy to enhance their competitiveness and value or to pursue synergy, regardless of whether they are interbank or cross-industry, domestic or foreign alliances. For card users, the basic swiping function has been unable to meet consumer demand.
Depending on the functionality and equity required, different consumers select different card issuers. However, no one can make completely correct predictions and evaluations of the future of the credit card market. However, we can provide the co-branded products in accordance with consumer preferences and demand and expect to achieve the purpose of giving the customer a multi-purpose card to further enhance cardholders’ use and consumption frequency and thus build loyalty. Therefore, whether strategic alliance can really enhance the performance of the company is the topic this paper mainly discusses. In this study, the case study method was used to explore the impact of the strategic alliance of domestic listed banks on the co-branded cards issue volume of the bank.
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