The semiconductor shortages during the Covid-19 pandemic revealed the importance of semiconductors for many industries. At the same time, semiconductor manufacturing capacity is concentrated in a few countries worldwide. Due to its significant stake in the foundry business, the Taiwanese semiconductor industry plays a crucial role in the global supply chain. Economies such as Germany were strongly affected by the semiconductor shortages leading to raised voices for the localization of semiconductor manufacturing capacity in Germany and Europe.
To better understand the complexity of the semiconductor supply and to assess the claims for more localization of semiconductor capacity, this paper aims to analyze the dependence of the German economy on the Taiwanese semiconductor industry based on one of the leading resource dependence concepts, the Resource Dependence Framework of Pfeffer & Salancik (1978).
Overall, the high resource importance of semiconductors for the German economy, the substantial discretion over resource allocation and use of Taiwanese foundries, and the high concentration of resource control in the semiconductor manufacturing industry reveal the high dependence of the German economy on the Taiwanese semiconductor industry.

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