Information technology (IT) is regarded as a facilitator for both small and large firms to speed up transactions between firms and their suppliers and customers, achieve real-time communication, lower transaction costs, and enhance speed and flexibility. However, understanding whether and how IT helps small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) to create business value still remains unclear. Drawing upo...

The complex relationships between information technology investments and organizational practices have been the focus of intensive research in recent years. The research focus appears to have shifted to investigating the effects of various organizational practices and their interactions with information technology capital. There also is emerging evidence of recent emphasis on organizational fac...

Historically, organizations owned and controlled the information technologies (IT) their employees used: telephone, inter-office memos, mainframes and timesharing systems. Today, employees often want to use their own IT: not only personal smart phones and tablets, but also Twitter and Google Docs. This new trend can diversify and extend enterprise the IT infrastructure, but leaves organizations...

This paper integrates theoretical concepts from transaction cost economics, organization theory and political economy to develop a conceptual framework to guide research on inter-organizational coordination strategies, particularly those that explicitly leverage IT capabilities. We outline research directions and approaches to bridge the requirements of theory building and theory testing. A Fra...

In spite of prior extensive research on the role of information systems (IS) in controlling interorganizational transactions, very little has been said about the role of handheld computers in inter-organizational control. The literature on handheld computers suggests that their facilities of mobility and connectivity engender usability patterns that are significantly different from those relate...

The evaluation of Inter-organizational Relationships (IORs) is important in today's businesses for increasing competitiveness and business potential, especially in the Business-to-Business context. However, the evaluation of IORs is often based on success factors, such as trust and flexibility, which are difficult to be measured quantitatively. This motivates us to seek for an approach for eval...

Purpose: To describe key success factors, derived from literature review and international case studies that enable effective integration between clinicians, teams and organizations Theory: Effective integration is dependent on consideration of diverse factors operating at macro, meso and micro levels of health care. Data sources: Literature review and four international case studies. Methods: ...

Inter-organizational cooperations between public and private partners, called public private partnerships (PPP), are increasingly gaining more importance concerning renewal, standardization, and optimization of the information technology (IT) infrastructure of public sector organizations. Reasons for this trend include the search for partners with necessary technological and innovative knowledg...