Although the notion of impersonal trust is not new, its significance has dramatically increased with the emergence of interorganizational eCommerce. Two types of trust are usually distinguished in interfirm exchange relations–an impersonal type created by structural arrangements, and a familiarity type arising from repeated interaction. This chapter contributes to the emerging body of knowledge...

Purpose: Identify the influence of relationships with support institutions on innovativeness and organizational performance. Theoretical framework: The innovation intermediaries are organizations that act as a link between those involved in process whose purpose is to develop innovative aspects organizations. Although studies have pointed out importance for development innovation, present study...

This research is based on an extensive review of a pioneering interorganizational web services (WS) installation that has been in operation for almost two years. The case study is used to evaluate the current WS technology and identify the critical research issues. In particular, the review concludes that the WS technology is capable of meeting the business need of reusability and flexibility. ...

MIS literature has not adequately addressed the measurement of electronic commerce dimensions and activities. Measures are yet to be proposed to assess the effect of trusted electronic interorganizational relationships on customer loyalty. In this paper, we present the results of a study that was a first effort toward this end. The focus of this study is to develop an instrument for measuring f...

This proposal outlines a study to further develop theory related to interorganizational learning by exploring how the use of IT in an alliance will impact the ability of each partner in the relationship to learn. The study aims to do this by examining how the use of IT impacts an organization’s degree of transparency and its degree of receptivity (two key enablers of interorganizational learnin...

This research examines the ways electronic data interchange (EDI) is used to coordinate and control interorganizational activities and resource transactions between car manufacturers and suppliers. The objective is to deveIop a research framework with a solid theoretical base that will be capable of capturing the richness of changing interorganizational relationships. To this end, the paper dis...

Opportunities abound for combining the Internet's many exciting services and resources into new, value-added interorganizational services. Increasingly, such collaborative ventures, or virtual organizations, will encourage strategic alliances among groups of organizations that share services electronically to satisfy mutual business goals. These arrangements allow each organization to maintain ...

Web services have a potential to enhance B2B e-commerce over the Internet by allowing companies and organizations to publish their business processes on service directories where potential trading partners can find them. This can give rise to new business paradigms based on ad-hoc trading relations as companies, particularly small to medium scale, can cheaply and flexibly enter into fruitful co...

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...