Research on inter-organizational relationships has become prominent in business and IS research and over the past two decades networks in particular have been widely recognized by both academics and practitioners as an important form of multi-organizational governance. Those networks rely heavily on information systems, and the integration of IS across partnering organizations has become the ba...

& Impacts on markets and organizations & Adoption in eMarkets and interorganizational information systems & Interorganizational coordination and integration & Vertical integration and hybrid forms & Electronic intermediaries & Disintermediation/mediation & New organizational forms & Online buyer and supplier behavior & Business models and market design & Market efficiency and price dispersion &...

Chapter Summary 1. Corporations grow, and as they grow the need for integration across the enterprise increases. Integration can be accomplished through various means. 2. Consistent with the theme of this book, the need for alignment – integration is really a business need, and the technology mechanisms won't help without the proper organizational structures, goals, and incentives. Both organiz...

While inter-organizational information integration is believed to benefit supply chain management (SCM), prior studies have shown mixed results. Based on Organizational Information Processing Theory, we question this belief and highlight the importance of information technology (IT)-enabled collaborative decision making to deliver performance benefits and the contingency of the integration–coll...

A major aspect of complex Enterprise Architectures is the integration of existing heterogeneous IT-systems in a business process oriented way. Based on an empirical study the authors of the paper proved that there is no significant process orientation in information system integration projects today. Among other reasons this is due to deficits in mastering integration methodologies and technolo...

This study examined the perceptions of Information Systems (IS) developers from the U.S. and Korea with regards to the strategies that are considered crucial for IS success. The results of a principal component analysis revealed that the IS development strategies could be classified into four categories: (1) Organizational Integration, (2) Team Member Characteristics, (3) Project Leader Traits,...

Legacy information systems are usually tailored to support particular business functions, such as payroll or purchasing, and are as a consequence usually difficult to integrate. However, companies of today strive to streamline their business processes (intraas well as inter-organizational). This gives rise to a strong need for much better integration of systems (existing as well as new in-house...

The emergence of Web technologies has made widespread the use of hypermedia systems as the underlying support for Information Systems in organizations. Hypermedia elements and their associated functionality in this context become organizational assets that are created, improved and delivered to users in an attempt to increase the overall value of the system. Semantic Web approaches to Informati...

health databases contain a wide scope of clinical data to explore relationships and patterns that can lead to new medical knowledge.today, the emergence of integrated information systems and growth of information technologies have better highlighted the importance of such databases. data mining is among the technological advances toward data management whose integration with traditional methods...