A Comprehensive Examination of Internet-EDI Adoption

Adoption of BIM by architectural firms in India: technology–organization–environment perspective

“…The internal/external technologies connected to the firm describe the technological context; the descriptive attributes of the firm describe the organizational context and environmental characteristics include the industry, competitors, suppliers and government (Jain, Le, Lin, & Cheng, 2011). Our research examines the influence of complexity, compatibility, and trialability in technological context (Doolin & Al Haj Ali, 2008;Lin & Lin, 2008;Mirchandani & Motwani, 2001;Premkumar & Roberts, 1999;Ramdani, Kawalek, & Lorenzo, 2009;Roberts & Pick, 2004;Srinivasan, Lilien, & Rangaswamy, 2002;Zhu, Kraemer, & Xu, 2003); top management support, perceived financial cost and BIM expertise in organizational context (Al-Qirim, 2007;Balocco, Mogre, & Toletti, 2009;Doolin & Al Haj Ali, 2008;Grover, 1993;Huang, Janz, & Frolick, 2008;Kuan & Chau, 2001;Lin & Lin, 2008;Moore & Benbasat, 1991;Premkumar & Roberts, 1999;Zhu & Kraemer, 2005); and client requirements and trade partner readiness in environmental context (Al-Qirim, 2007;Doolin & Al Haj Ali, 2008;Lin & Lin, 2008;Premkumar & Roberts, 1999;Ramdani et al, 2009;Zhu et al, 2003) Adoption and Figure 2: TOE Framework (Tornatzky & Fleischer, 1990) In the current research, TOE framework has been used for investigating the factors affecting BIM adoption among architectural firms in India. As BIM processes require organization wide adoption (including adoption in the project delivery network) and as this research focuses on studying the BIM adoption among architecture firms (and not individuals) an organizational-level adoption theory is deemed suitable for the current research.…”

Impact of the Internet on interorganizational relationships

“…In this study, the term ''IORs'' is used in a broad meaning, which represents all types of inter-firm cooperation that go beyond market transactions. Many of these studies were conducted before the Internet era, but the more recent ones investigated the potential impact of the Internet on different aspects of IORs (Nault and Tyagi 2001;Sawhney and Zabin 2002;Afuah 2003;Ratnasingam and Phan 2003;Ratnasingam and Pavlou 2003;Duysters and de Man 2003;Park and Mezias 2005;Barua et al 2004;Brews and Tucci 2004;Schultze and Orlikowski 2004;Soliman and Janz 2004;Van Der Merwe et al 2004;Bunduchi 2005;Dedrick and Kraemer 2005;Kim and Umanath 2005;Chi et al 2007;Rahim et al 2007;Choe 2008;Huang et al 2008). However, these studies focused on specific issues or stages of IORs.…”

“…The combination of Internet tools, along with the fact that it is a low-cost standard, has the potential to influence the way organizations communicate, collaborate, and coordinate activities in ways that previous IT could not support (Afuah 2003;Choe 2008). For example, Huang et al (2008) found that technology compatibility is no longer significant in explaining the adoption of Internet-based electronic data interchange (EDI). Geographical boundaries are no longer prohibitive obstacles, because the Internet has increased an organization's opportunities for finding more and better partners globally.…”

“…The Internet lowers transaction costs (search, contracting, monitoring, and collaboration) drastically through more effectively accumulating, communicating, and processing information (Kim and Umanath 2005;Huang et al 2008). The combination of Internet tools, along with the fact that it is a low-cost standard, has the potential to influence the way organizations communicate, collaborate, and coordinate activities in ways that previous IT could not support (Afuah 2003;Choe 2008).…”

“…They are mostly unilateral contract-based, where individual firms carry out their obligations (specified in these contracts) independently of others, without much coordination or collaboration (Dass and Teng 2000). This type of information exchange is mainly done through supply chain management systems, EDI, or other automated systems (Huang et al, 2008).…”