Purpose This paper aims to investigate small and medium-sized upstream suppliers' downstream distributors' understandings of supply chain finance (SCF) arrangements their decisions adopt such schemes. Design/methodology/approach In this grounded theory-informed methods are employed, involving 56 in-depth interviews with informants from enterprises (SMEs), banks subject experts in the United Kin...

Social welfare and healthcare professionals consider their services fragmented, which also impacts information technology (IT) deployment. They also face the question of whether to cooperate with other organisations in IT. The need to cooperate and to organise cooperation has increased with ever-wider IT deployment. Governance of IT helps in this by defining the responsibilities of cooperating ...

Information technology (IT) enables businesses to integrate information systems across entities without altering the firms’ legal boundaries. New forms of inter-firm dependence and governance mechanisms may arise, due to the explicit investments made in technology and systems for collaboration purposes. There is an important distinction between general and customized investments in inter-organi...

To date there has been little academic research exploring the theoretical reasons that motivate organizations to adopt Enterprise Systems (ES). By employing Transaction Costs Economics (TCE) and Institutional theory, this research project intends to provide a theoretical foundation to better explain the extent of ES adoption within companies. TCE, Institutional Theory, and combined models are d...

Abstract Prior research has highlighted the performance implications of R&D alliances for innovation outcomes and financial returns firms. However, on yet to offer insights into how premature termination such alliances, before fulfilling their predetermined objectives, affects shareholder firm. Applying transaction cost economics (TCE) theory real options (RO) logic a post‐formation allianc...

In the Italian agrifood sector, one observes heterogeneity in the types of quality certification processes. This heterogeneity cannot be explained by standard governance theories like transaction costs economics (TCE). We use the governance value analysis (GVA) perspective that synthesizes TCE and a resources-based view (RBV), to suggest that the observed heterogeneity in organizational forms i...

In this paper, we rely on an extended version of the traditional transaction cost economics (TCE) framework to explain variety plural forms in governance food supply chains. Relying interplay two transactional attributes – asset specificity and uncertainty explore not only existence forms, but their empirical diversity. This aspect has been largely under-explored very little done empirically so...

At the beginning of the 21 st Century, before the power of online social networking became apparent, several studies speculated about the likely structure of organised cybercrime (Mann and Sutton 1998; Brenner 2002). In the light of new data on cybercriminal organisations, this paper sets out to revisit their claims. In collaboration with the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), this paper ex...