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作者：Kearns, Grover S.; Sabherwal, Rajiv
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of South Florida; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Saint Louis
摘要：Senior executives continue to be concerned about factors influencing the business effect of information technology (IT). Prior research has argued that business-IT strategic alignment facilitates business effect of IT and that contextual factors affect business-IT alignment. However, the role of knowledge considerations in the relationship between contextual factors and alignment, and the role of IT projects in the relationship between alignment and business effects of IT, have not been explic...
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作者：Wang, Eric T. G.; Tai, Jeffrey C. F.; Wei, Hsiao-Lan
作者单位：National Central University
摘要：Organizing and maintaining a competent and flexible supply chain is a major challenge to manufacturers in today's increasingly competitive and uncertain environments. Virtual integration represents the substitution of ownership with partnership by integrating a set of suppliers through information technology (IT) for tighter supply-chain collaboration. From the systems and control perspectives, this study develops a theory of virtual integration with an empirical model to examine the role that...
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作者：Lee, KC; Kwon, SJ
作者单位：Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
摘要：Conventional approaches to business-to-business (B2B) negotiation use primary negotiation terms (PNTs) such as price or order quantity for modeling and analysis, but pay little attention to Such secondary negotiation terms (SNTs) as resource availability and corporate culture. This paper argues that SNTs also contribute to good negotiation decisions because PNTs and SNTs are closely interlinked in the form of causal relationships. Moreover, B2B negotiation demands a practical and useful framew...
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作者：Levina, N; Vaast, E
作者单位：New York University; Long Island University; Long Island University Post
摘要：This paper examines how information technology (IT) transforrns relations across fields of practice within organizations. Drawing on Bourdieu's practice theory, we argue that the production of any practice involves varying degrees of embodiment (i.e., relying on personal relationships) and objectification (i.e., relying on the exchange of objects). We subsequently characterize boundary-spanning practices according to their relative degrees of embodiment and objectification. We distinguish betw...
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作者：Khoumbati, K; Themistocleous, M; Irani, Z
作者单位：Brunel University
摘要：The integration of heterogeneous information systems has always been problematic in health-care organizations, as it is associated with the delivery of key services and has high operational costs. Therefore, health-care organizations are looking for new means to increase their functional capabilities and reduce integration cost. In addressing this need, enterprise application integration (EAI) technology has emerged to facilitate systems integration, enhance the quality of services, and reduce...
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作者：Wagner, Christian; Majchrzak, Ann
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; University of Southern California
摘要：Customer-centric business makes the needs and resources of individual customers the starting point for planning new products and services or improving existing ones. While customer-centricity has received recent attention in the marketing literature, technologies to enable customer-centricity have been largely ignored in research and theory development. In this paper, we describe one enabling technology-wikis. Wiki is a Web-based collaboration technology designed to allow anyone to update any ...
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作者：Sarker, Suprateek; Sarker, Saonee; Sidorova, Anna
作者单位：Washington State University; Copenhagen Business School; Aalto University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：In this paper, we use concepts from actor-network theory (ANT) to interpret the sequence of events that led to business process change (BPC) failure at a telecommunications company in the United States. Through our intensive examination of the BPC initiative, we find that a number of issues suggested by ANT, such as errors in problematization, parallel translation, betrayal, and irreversible inscription of interests, contributed significantly to the failure. We provide nine abstraction stateme...
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作者：Patnayakuni, Ravi; Rai, Arun; Seth, Nainika
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Huntsville; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：A new model of competition, where competition is among supply chain networks rather than individual firms, is transforming traditional market-based buyer-supplier relations to one of competition among cooperative sets. In order to integrate and realize performance gains from participating in cooperative supply networks, the importance of information sharing across the supply chain has been emphasized in different literature streams. In this study, we examine the relational antecedents of this ...
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作者：Stewart, Katherine J.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：This paper suggests and empirically supports the propositions that a link between two organizations' Web sites will have simultaneous effects on trust in both the link sender and the link recipient, and that these effects result from interactions among the reputation of the link recipient, trust in the link sender, and the perceived relationship of the linked organizations. The study finds that the perceived relationship caused by a link leads to positive effects for the less reputable of the ...
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作者：Zwass, Vladimir
作者单位：Fairleigh Dickinson University
