& Impacts on markets and organizations & Adoption in eMarkets and interorganizational information systems & Interorganizational coordination and integration & Vertical integration and hybrid forms & Electronic intermediaries & Disintermediation/mediation & New organizational forms & Online buyer and supplier behavior & Business models and market design & Market efficiency and price dispersion &...

2. This paper examines interconnectivity within the grocery channel and suggests an interorganizational connectivity framework modeled in part on the IS0 model of systems connectivity. This seven-level model of interorganizational connectivity and channel interdependence is illustrated using examples of processes that span multiple levels of interconnectivity and interdependence within the groc...

Contingency approaches to organizing suggest that policy objectives are more likely to be achieved if the structures employed for implementation mesh with the policy objectives being sought. Interorganizational arrangements are used increasingly in carrying out public programs, and contingency logic can be used to assess the degree of match between policy objective and interunit structure. Such...

Lei Chi and Clyde W. Holsapple are in the Decision Science and Information Systems Area, School of Management, Gatton College of Business and Economics, Lexington, KY, USA ([email protected]) ([email protected]). Abstract Purpose To develop a process model of interorganizational systems (IOS) collaboration and systematic framework for understanding and classifying IOS technologies for interorganizatio...

Despite the scholarly interest in contracts and trust governing interorganizational relationships, an understanding of how contracts influence trust remains limited by the way in which the interaction between the two constructs is conceptualized. By bringing together recent advances in the literature on interorganizational governance, I consider (a) the controlling and the coordinating dimensio...

A vital ingredient for the success of interorganizational collaboration projects is strong personal relationships among partners. Their formation structured by geographical distances between In corresponding research, it assumed that geographic distance inhibits face-to-face interactions, which are highly effective tie-formation. However, findings from adjacent fields research suggest greater c...