The growth of the Internet has allowed business organisations to participate in e -commerce. E-commerce can exist between business organisations i.e. business to business e -commerce, sometimes referred to as Internet EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), as well as between business and customer. Small and medium sized organisations (SMEs) do not generally participate in traditional EDI largely be...

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a technology which has shown significant impact not only at the individual organisation level, but at industry-sector and even at the country-level. As the issues to be addressed at these levels are different, a systemic study of EDI technology transfer incorporating multiple levels is necessary for developing a holistic understanding of the transfer process...

Electronic data interchange (EDI), a specific form of interorganizational systems, has the potential to significantly influence business operations and the exchange of business documents in a number of industries and to provide substantive tangible and intangible benefits to the participating firms. EDI within organizations continues to grow, it becomes increasingly desirable to establish a tac...

As an element of Electronic Commerce (particularly supply chain management), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has the potential to sustain competitive advantage for individual companies, yet the adoption of EDI has been considerably slower than anticipated. One of the major reasons for this slow uptake is the difficulty in justifying the high investment cost of EDI. Very little research has be...

This study explores how rationales for information technology use relate to the extent of its assimilation in organizations and considers whether and how rationales associated with the technology-in-practice are transformed as the organization makes use of the technology. A multiple-case study of electronic data interchange (EDI) adoption and assimilation was analyzed, looking at both instituti...

Over the past several decades, corporations have invested trillions of dollars in implementing EDI systems with their major trading partners using traditional EDI methods such as ANSI ASC X12 and UN/EDIFACT. While this investment has yielded significant improvements in efficiency and savings, the savings have not been more than 20% of the potential savings, because traditional EDI has been too ...