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In business management theory, the smiling curve is a graphical depiction of how value added varies across the different stages of bringing a product on to the market in an IT-related manufacturing industry. The concept was first proposed around 1992 by Stan Shih, the founder of Acer Inc., an IT company headquartered in Taiwan.
Aug 28, 2023 · Enter the fascinating concept of the Smile Curve, a visual representation that sheds light on the dynamic stages of value creation. Coined by Stan Shih, the visionary co-founder of Acer, the Taiwanese electronics giant, in the late 1990s, this concept has revolutionized how we perceive the essence of production and distribution.
Mar 1, 2021 · The notion of functional specialisation is inextricably-linked to the concept of the smile curve, first introduced by Stan Shih, the former CEO of the Taiwanese IT company Acer (Shih, 1996). He found that in his industry, firms that actually produce the electronic good in question earn lower profits and pay lower wages, i.e. create less value ...
- Roman Stöllinger
- 2021
Mar 1, 2018 · In line with the hypothesis of a ‘ smile curve’, we detect a non-linear U-shaped relationship between the value added content of a firm and its distance from final consumption. Tasks at the early and late stages of the supply chains generate higher value added, possibly due to a higher knowledge-intensity, after controlling for firm heterogeneity.
- Armando Rungi, Davide Del Prete
- 2018
Acer founder and CEO Stan Shih in the early 1990s, the smile-curve logic asserts that the share of value added in manufactured products is shifting from the fabrication stages to pre- and post-fabrication services.
name of ™smile curve™for a U-shape of value added plotted on the technological sequence. The notion was –rst developed in the 90s by the CEO of the Chinese Taipei-based hardware and electronics cor-poration Acer, Stan Shih, who acknowledged that Acer™s focus on assembling PCs, i.e. in the middle
In business management theory, the smiling curve is a graphical depiction of how value added varies across the different stages of bringing a product on to the market in an IT-related manufacturing industry. The concept was first proposed around 1992 by Stan Shih, the founder of Acer Inc., an IT company headquartered in Taiwan.
