This paper reports on an embedded-cases study of three hospitals’ participation in a pilot test of an inter-organizational system which gathered data about medication orders (prescriptions), so physicians can discover drugs a patient might be taking (this is a difficult problem in US emergency medicine, since no single data source exists as a master repository of such information, yet a complet...

Prior studies of information technology (IT) capability mostly focused on dimensions and effects of IT capability at intra-organizational level in western context. This paper extends intra-organizational IT capability to inter-organizational IT capability, specifically examining process-oriented inter-organizational IT capability from a process-oriented perspective in an emerging market context...

Network organizations and inter-organizational systems (IOS) have recently been the subjects of extensive research and practice. Various papers discuss technical issues as well as several complex business considerations and cultural issues. However, one interesting aspect of this context has only received adequate coverage so far, namely the ability of existing Enterprise Architecture Managemen...

Organizations are recognized today as part of business ecosystems that conduct activities with business partners in a cooperative fashion. In our research we focus particularly on activities related to innovation in such inter-organizational co-operations. The role of information systems (IS) in interorganizational cooperative innovation activities is significant. Boundary objects are used to u...

This study aims to understand how characteristics of a labor flow network affect firm productivity using an inter-firm hiring network constructed from individual job histories. We separate IT-labor from non-IT labor and use the network measures constructed from the two types of labor flow to evaluate how they affect firm performance. We find that hiring IT workers from a diverse set of firms ca...

In this study, we focus on understanding the process of value creation in an inter-organizational (IOS) context. Specifically, we analyze how the dependencies between inter-firm and intra-firm process affect IOS value creation and how do the complementarity between technology and process artifacts affect process of IOS value creation. We build our research framework based on theoretical concept...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discover a three-step process for building contextual ambidexterity into inter-organizational IT-enabled service processes through developmental interventions. Design/methodology/approach – A longitudinal action research project was conducted. The empirical study consisted of three consecutive developmental interventions to support the collaborative dev...

Previous research on the nature of trust in an organizational context provided somewhat controversial and ambiguous results. There are both conceptual and operational difficulties in exploring this intuitively individual-level phenomenon at organizational and inter-organizational levels. The fundamental question of where trust resides in inter-organizational relationships remains unresolved. Th...

There is a growing usage of business intelligence (BI) for better management decisions in different industries. However, empirical studies on BI are still scarce. In this research we study BI from an organizational agility perspective. Organizational agility is the ability to sense and respond to market opportunities and threats with speed and BI can help the sensing part of organizational agil...

In this contribution we investigate how results from the ongoing discussion about ‘eInfrastructures’ can be used to improve the design of IT infrastructures in organizations. We first establish a perspective on organizational IT as ‘work infrastructure’ that focuses on the infrastructural nature of organizational Information Systems and describe challenges for designing within and for this type...