資訊通訊科技(ICT)的廣泛應用與組織的變革，有效率的提升技術，精簡化人力，節省成本，帶動了半導體產業的興盛。本文主要探討ICT與組織改變對勞動以及廠商績效影響的關係。此外，深入研究在半導體產業上個別的電子化ICT對組織改變的關連性。文中所提到的組織改變包含有電子化ICT以及人力資源成本的節省，並由treatment effect衡量估計出來。實證結果發現電子化ICT不僅使組織改變，更影響組織傾向僱用更多的高科技勞工而減少一般勞工的僱用。組織改變更刺激了半導體產業的生產力提升。

The focus of this paper is to discuss the relationship between organizational changes and information communication technology (ICT) in Taiwan semiconductor industry. Besides, we also examine the effect of ICT adoption workforce on productivity and organizational change. In this paper, our organizational change includes electronics ICT and manpower saving cost. We develop a treatment effect to estimate organizational change. Electronics ICT adoption leads organizational change and then causes firms to employ less low-skilled labors. Organizational change also makes productivity growth further in semiconductor industry.

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER 2 THE STATUS QUO OF ICT ADOPTION AND ORGANIZATION PRACTICE IN TAIWAN HIGH-TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES 4
2.1 SOME IMPORTANT REPORTS ON TAIWAN HIGH-TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES 4
2.1.1 World Competitiveness of IMD 4
2.1.2 Technology Competitiveness Report of the World Economy Forum 4
2.2 THE CHARACTERISTIC OF TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY 5
2.2.1 The New Era of the Silicon is Coming 5
2.2.2 IC Industry Trend and Development 6
2.3 CASE STUDIES 7
2.3.1 Virtual Foundry 8
2.3.2 EDA Tool 10
CHAPTER 3 LITERATURE REVIEW 13
3.1 ICT AND SKILLED LABOR 13
3.2 ORGANIZATION AND SKILLED LABOR 14
3.3 ORGANIZATION AND ICT 15
3.4 ICT, ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE, LABORS, AND PRODUCTIVITY 16
CHAPTER 4 MODEL SPECIFICATION AND VARIABLE CONSTRUCTION 19
4.1 ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE 19
4.2 THE WORKFORCE SKILL AND ICT ADOPTION 23
4.3 THE ORGANIZATION CHANGE AND ICT ADOPTION 24
4.4 THE ORGANIZATION CHANGE AND EMPLOYMENT GROWTH 25
4.5 PRODUCTIVITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE 27
4.6 DATA SOURCE AND VARIABLE SPECIFICATION 28
4.6.1 Data Issues 28
4.6.2 The Variable Specification 29
CHAPTER 5 EMPIRICAL RESULT 35
5.1 THE WORKFORCE SKILL AND ICT ADOPTION 35
5.2 THE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES AND ICT ADOPTION 36
5.2.1 Individual Electronics ICT and Organization Change 37
5.3 THE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND EMPLOYMENT GROWTH 39
5.4 PRODUCTIVITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES 40
CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION 44
REFERENCE 46
APPENDIX 53

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