Correspondence Analysis to Screening the Implementation of One Village One Product Programs in Taiwan

Abstract

One Village One Product (OVOP) programs are a community-centered and demand-driven for local economic development approach initiated by Oita Prefecture in Japan in the 1970s. The uniqueness of these programs are those they intended to achieve the regional economic development through adding value to products employing locally available resources through processing, quality control and marketing. The objectives of OVOP programs in Taiwan are supported by government to promoting the economic development and cooperative relationship of each country and region through the localization and innovation. Firstly, we employ Delphi process to converge eighteen critical criteria with respect to three key dimensions for evaluation. We then utilize graphical correspondence analysis to exploring the implementation of OVOP programs and conduct some meaningful suggestions of the policy direction from these empirical cases. Through this study we successfully demonstrate that correspondence analysis is an efficiency technique for industrial analysis and strategy management in real world.