Purpose This study aims to analyze the effects of interorganizational cost management and opportunism on reflexes relational norms satisfaction with cooperation in franchised companies. The collective synergy arising from these relationships mainly seeks increase competitiveness commercial development. Windolph Moeller observed that increases relationship partners, while attenuate negative effe...

Purpose – This article aims to focus on raising awareness of the limitations of traditional “enterprise-centric” views of enterprise risk management that ignore the risks that are inherited from key business and supply chain partners. In essence, enterprise systems implementations have allowed organizations to couple their operations more tightly with other business partners, particularly in th...

Past years have seen a plethora of studies on the construct of trust in business relationships. Despite the significance of trust in developing relationships, research on trust still has two main deficiencies. First, previous studies attempted to stretch the concept of trust from interpersonal towards interorganizational relationships which resulted in a cross-level fallacy, as the emotional ch...

In this article, we identify success factors for managing small and intensive purchasing groups by comparing successful and unsuccessful Dutch purchasing groups in a large-scale survey. Transaction costs economics and social exchange theory are used as theoretical frameworks for our broad empirical investigation. We found that the success factors studied that are related to interorganizational ...

More thoroughly understanding how interorganizational governance value can be created by information technology and other governance mechanisms is critical for supply chain management. Based primarily on transaction-cost economics and supplemented by the resource-based view, this study investigates how interorganizational governance (i.e., relational governance and virtual integration) can crea...

Globalization and advances in information technology represent both realities and opportunities for enterprises in the 21st century. This paper aims to broaden understanding of service innovation as a critical organizational capability through which the adoption of information technology influences firm performance. This study examines how the adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) t...