Specialized firms engaged in service offshoring contracts often face a tension between specializing in their own domain and maintaining knowledge in their partners’ domains. When knowledge is “peripheral” to a firm’s own specialty (e.g., an information technology (IT) service contractor’s knowledge of a client’s business domain or a client’s technical knowledge of a contractor’s domain), firms ...

Strategic decisions like supply chain integration and interfirm value co-creation are significant to SMEs’ performance. Therefore, this paper aims find out the relationships between integration, co-creation, firm performance in Ghanaian SMEs. We employed a structural equation model (SEM) estimate responses of 473 SMEs registered with Association Industries (AGI) nexus Further, we test for media...

The majority of my research is field-based, and in the quantitative, positivist research tradition, complemented by some qualitative methods on the front end. The unit of analysis in my research has followed an intrafirm to interfirm ontological trajectory. The core contributions of my research so far have been in addressing questions about how knowledge integration is achieved across intra-fir...

Firms have been increasingly using inter-organizational systems (IOS) to enhance transaction efficiency. IOS integration thus has become critical in facilitating tighter integration between trading partners. Firms, however, still face various difficulties that impede the implementation of IOS integration, such as potential adversarial behaviors and conflicts. Thus, exploring how to effectively ...

This study seeks to identify the means by which information technology helps cocreate relational value in the context of interfirm relationships in the logistics industry—a large and information-intensive industry. We identify a set of IT functionalities—single-location shipping, multilocation shipping, supply chain visibility, and financial settlement—that can be used to manage the flows of ph...

1 Recent work has shown that a firm’s plural sourcing strategy, which determines how much it chooses to make versus how much it chooses to buy, requires consideration of the complementarities and constraints that affect the differential advantages of making and buying. Elaborating on this perspective, we theorize how (mis)fit between a firm’s plural sourcing strategy of simultaneously making an...

Firms pursue various strategies to exploit resources and capabilities and gain a competitive advantage (Porter, 1996). Interfirm relationships are collaborative agreements between organizations (Chakrabarty, 2006a; Whetten, 1981), and firms need to be careful in adopting suitable strategies to deal with interfirm relationships (Chakrabarty, 2007b). Interfirm relationships represent a sort of tr...

nowadays all organizations are somehow involved with information technology revolutions and the applicable aspects of information technology are evident in any field of supply chain, from the relationship with suppliers and producers to the relationship with the customers. in other words, the application of information technology is influential in the improvement of the supply chain. in this st...

There has been a burgeoning literature about interfirm network and innovative performance. However, in reviewing the extant literature we find different interpretations regarding how firms should be tied to one another in networks. The paper employs case study to explore and explain the relative propositions of interfirm network, different organizational learning and technological innovation. I...