Collaboration time influences information-sharing at work

CHOOSING INFORMATION SHARING STRATEGY ON COLLABORATION NETWORKS Topic 3: Information Sharing and Collaboration Processes and Behaviors

It has been discovered that conflicts are complex by nature and crisis management requires more cooperation, coordination and coherence on all levels of crisis management activities. Comprehensive approach (CA) in crisis management can be seen as a means to an end. It is about developing a culture of cooperation and mutually understood and accepted practices to reach commonly understood goals. ...

Sharing Information through Delegation and Collaboration

This article analyzes under which conditions a manager can motivate a junior worker by verbal communication, and explains why communication is often tied up with organizational choices as job enlargement and collaboration. Our model has two important features. First, the manager has more information about a junior’s ability than the junior himself. Second, the junior’s effort and ability are co...

Information Technology at Work

New Forms of Collaboration & Information Sharing in Grocery Retailing: The PCSO Pilot at Veropoulos

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In spring 2001, Veropoulos, the third biggest retailer in Greece and three of its top suppliers together with a service provider, started a pilot implementation to experiment with collaborative store ordering. The pilot involved the ordering from the retailer’s stores to their central warehouse as well as to the direct-store-delivery suppliers. The four companies together with...

Information sharing and collaboration practices in reverse logistics

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate how the use of information technology (IT) and supply chain management initiatives (information sharing and collaboration) impact a company’s performance in reverse logistics (RL). Design/methodology/approach – A survey based on a previous exploratory research and literature review was sent out to 600 US companies having substantial activiti...