The work reported in this chapter is part of a research stream to study the interaction between a nation's societal factors and the introduction of information technology. It examines the influence of four societal factors culture, economy, infrastructures and government policyon the diffusion of electronic data interchange in the Netherlands. This single-case study involved conducting semi-str...

This article presents an economic model that enables the study of incentives for business-to-business (B2B) e-procurement systems investments which permit inventory coordination and improved operational control. We focus on the information technology (IT) adoption behavior of firms in the presence of transaction costs, agency costs and information uncertainty. But we conclude that it is appropr...

EDI (electronic data interchange) messages are notoriously lean and difficult (or impossible) to interpret without additional information. While recognizing and sympathizing with the many criticisms that have been made of the design of EDI protocols, we argue in this paper that there is something basically correct, even inevitable, in the noted leanness of EDI messages. By way of making this ca...

EDI (electronic data interchange) messages are notoriously lean and di cult to interpret without additional information. While sympathizing with the many criticisms that have been made of the design of EDI protocols, we argue in this paper that there is something basically correct in the noted leanness of EDI messages. We present a framework that describes how interpretation of EDI messages wor...

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) consists in the interchange of structured and standardized data between computers belonging to parties involved in a business relationship. The potential of EDI has been recognized since the mid-70’s when the dematerialization and the automation of document transmission and handling was identified as a source of major time and money savings. Indeed the transmis...

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems are used in many domains to support inter-organisational information exchange. These systems require complex message translation, where data must be transformed from one EDI message format into another. We describe a visual language and support environment which greatly simplify the task of the systems integrator by using a domain-specific visual langua...

The growing importance of Electronic Data Interchange for the rapid transmission of intraand inter-organisational communications is becoming widely recognised. EDI itself is little more than a faster mail service: it is the opportunity to integrate EDI with internal application systems and organisational functions which separates it from other forms of electronic telecommunications and makes ED...

Choreography modeling and service integration received a lot of attention in the last decade. However, most real-world implementations of inter-organizational systems are still realized by traditional Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards. In traditional EDI standards, the notion of process or choreography is not explicitly specified. Rather, every business document exchange stands for it...

This paper is the first test of a parsimonious model that posits three factors as determinants of the adoption of electronic data interchange (EDI): readiness, perceived benefits, and external pressure. To construct the model, we identified and organized the factors that were found to be influential in prior EDI research. By testing all these factors together in one model, we are able to invest...