Introduction: In clinical practices, the use of information technology, especially computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems, has been found to be an effective strategy to improve patient care. This study aimed to compare physicians’ and nurses’ views about the impact of CPOE on their workflow. Methods: This case study was conducted in 2012. The potential participants included all physic...

Despite the relative maturity of knowledge management the problem of facilitating knowledge creation and sharing at multiple levels (personal, team, organizational and interorganizational) in a uniform way is still crucial. Moreover, managing knowledge at each organizational level implies a number of critical heterogeneities (representational, semantic, etc) which current solutions cannot addre...

This study examines electronic integration in logistics supply chains using the nonintegrated US-international air cargo industry as a case study. We ask what impact electronic integration has on interorganizational task performance, and hypothesize about factors limiting the effectiveness of electronic integration. Surprisingly, our study does not find evidence of direct impacts of electronic ...

Interorganizational relationships enabled by information systems (IS) are formed under various contingencies. Past research in interorganizational collaborations has benefitted from employing rational choice and institutional theory separately but as organizations face dual pressures to improve performance and gain legitimacy in their social environments a fuller explanation must encompass both...

In an interorganizational relationships (IOR) context, interorganizational information systems (IOS) need to be integrated in order to support collaboration between partners and provide a fuller exploitation of the systems they share. Although research stresses the importance of the two phases of the IOS integration, that is the systems development and the systems diffusion, there is a paucity ...

While trust is widely acknowledged as to be important for the efficient operation of interorganizational business arrangements, the formation of trust remains challenging. In this paper we discuss the trust building potential of inter-firm coordination roles as organizational means in virtual organizations. Thus, we introduce the coordination role concept and proceed by defining three different...