For innovative SMEs, acquiring knowledge resources may serve as an important source to enhance their base of management practices. In line with the resource interaction approach, essential way do this is participate in informal interfirm networks. Yet, researchers have only given cursory attention exchange cooperative This study examines structural, relational, and motivational drivers that lea...

this paper seeks to make an empirical analysis of the degree to which the research effort andfunctional integration into the design of environmental activity account for a company’s environmental actionbasedcompetitive advantage. to do so, we have used a sample of 110 factories. it has been proven that bothfactors (the research effort and functional integration into the design of environmental ...

this paper seeks to make an empirical analysis of the degree to which the research effort andfunctional integration into the design of environmental activity account for a company’s environmental actionbasedcompetitive advantage. to do so, we have used a sample of 110 factories. it has been proven that bothfactors (the research effort and functional integration into the design of environmental ...

Supply chain management systems (SCMS) championed by network leaders in their supplier networks are now ubiquitous. While prior studies have examined the benefits to network leaders from these systems, little attention has been paid to the benefits to supplier firms. This study draws from organizational theories of learning and action and transaction cost theory to propose a model relating supp...

Developing information systems normally requires feasibility and demand analysis before the designing phase. Particularly when the information systems are to be adopted for the purpose of supply chain management, the preliminarily analyses have to identify current operation processes and look into the constraints of enterprises capability to adapt ideal processes in a Business-to-Business (B2B)...

Service innovation is recognized as a fundamental source of competitive advantage in B2B settings, with positive effects on customers, business partners, employees, and society. Scholars have pointed out that innovation does not result from a single economic actor but from a complex process in which a range of actors interact. Previous studies on service innovation in B2B highlight the integrat...

This paper centres around two research questions: first, the identification of five types of networks that manufacturing firms located in the metropolitan region of Vienna may have created for different purposes; and second, the question to what extent the likelihood of interfirm cooperation is conditioned by the general profile of manufacturing establishments and their technological resources....

Current interorganizational systems literature focuses on describing the role of information technology in enabling the transition from interfirm competition to cooperation. This article points out that the promise of IT enabled coop1 Izak Benbasat was the accepting senior editor for this paper. eration, ff not nurtured, can degenerate into conflict. The objective of this article is to identify...