Electronic payments for services rendered or products purchased are extremely common in much of the developed world. For instance, many large companies in USA regularly conduct seventy to eighty percent of their interactions with suppliers and banks electronically. The Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards and products used to achieve this are fairly mature. Typically such transactions oc...

Connecting to business partners electronically is one of the most important information technology management issues. Interactive forms enable companies to automate processes with their vendors and customers. In comparison to well discussed technologies like electronic data interchange (EDI) or online portals, interactive forms are hardly considered in the literature as an alternative business-...

In this theoretical essay we apply three theories of governance in proposing a conceptual model of the relationship between information technology (IT) and supply chain governance (SCG) and its conceptions (contractual, transactional, and relational). We argue, theoretically, that with contractual governance, IT is used to control activities and processes across the supply chain and to enforce ...

In this paper we analyze how factors of electronic data interchange diffusion evolve over time. Our premise is that factors that capture the diffusion of complex, standard-based and networked technologies are not static but change over time as the technology matures, the institutional arrangement changes and industries become more sophisticated in their technology application. Based on longitud...

Amid the turmoil of the current economic crisis, the wild expectations for business-to-business electronic marketplaces or ‘e-hubs’ as transformative modes of exchange for all industries have subsided. However, e-hubs continue to elicit interest in industries such as car production. Yet, there is little research that investigates firms’ strategies for e-procurement in the automotive industry an...

EDI (electronic data interchange) messages are notoriously lean and di cult to interpret without additional information. While sympathizing with the many criticisms that have been made of the design of EDI protocols, we argue in this paper that there is something basically correct in the noted leanness of EDI messages. We present a framework that describes how interpretation of EDI messages wor...

This paper explores the diffusion of Electronic Data Interchange in Denmark. EDI forms a complex and interorganizational innovation and therefore a multitheoretical framework is suggested to study its diffusion. The framework takes into account institutional, industry specific and organizational factors and thus extends the analysis beyond organizational borders. The framework delivers an accou...

Supply chain applications typically involve sharing of large amounts of information across a number of partner organizations. Examples of supply chain applications are common in manufacturing, healthcare and global trade. Such applications can involve a large number of partners in different locations with various levels of connectivity, ranging from high-speed Internet to unreliable and slow di...

This study examines firms’ migration across interorganizational systems (IOS) that are built on standards with relatively different degrees of openness. As firms seek to improve inter-firm coordination using network technologies, open standards are becoming increasingly important. To better understand the process of standards diffusion, we investigate the migration from relatively less open IOS...

Different electronic services offered in e-banking, e-commerce, e-government, e-manufacturing, e-learning, etc. are becoming to be a part of everyday life for people everywhere. A communication portal has become universal solution in all cases from common communication between persons or information and data interchange up to e-business. For the creation of quality portal for information interc...