Can intrafirm IT skills benefit interfirm integration and performance?

Wang, Eric T. G.; Chou, Frank K. Y.; Lee, Neil C.A.; Lai, Shang-Yu

doi:10.1016/j.im.2014.05.003

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“…Huo et al (2014) found that process integration of supply chains is positively correlated with a company's operational performance, which leads to its improved financial performance. Wang et al (2014) suggested that both interfirm integration and process integration can enhance supply chain performance. Huo et al (2015) indicated that the coordination with suppliers and customers are positively related to the performance of supply chains.…”

Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of information technology on supply chain integration and company performance: evidence from cross-border e-commerce companies in China

Huo

Zhang

2021

JEIM

102

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PurposeBased on the resource-based view and organizational capability theory, we examine the effect of information technology (IT) on company performance through supply chain integration (SCI) from the upstream and downstream perspective of the whole supply chain.Design/methodology/approachBased on data collected from 296 cross-border e-commerce (CBE) companies in China, we used structural equation modeling with LISREL to test the conceptual model.FindingsThe results show that supplier and customer IT significantly promote supplier and customer system and process integration. Supplier system and process integration enhance operational performance. Meanwhile, IT indirectly affects financial performance through operational performance. Customer system integration has positive effects on operational and financial performance, with an indirect effect on financial performance through operational performance. However, customer process integration only improves financial performance.Research limitations/implicationsWe only use cross-sectional data from Zhejiang province of China to investigate relationships of related constructs. Future studies can also use longitudinal data in combination with secondary data from other provinces, regions and countries.Practical implicationsThe results provide important managerial insights for CBE companies to sustain their competitive advantages by improving their performances through IT and SCI practices throughout the upstream and downstream data-driven supply chain.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the IT and SCI literature by exploring the effectiveness of IT in improving SCI and company performance from the upstream and downstream perspective and the perspective of IT.

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Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of information technology on supply chain integration and company performance: evidence from cross-border e-commerce companies in China

Huo

Zhang

2021

JEIM

102

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“…In the context of digital supply chain relationships, this study will focus on relation-specific assets, knowledge exchange and joint learning, and interfirm assets interconnectedness identified by Dyer and Singh (1998) as the key sources of relational rents (Saraf et al, 2007;Wang et al, 2014). As a firm's core infrastructure to communicate and transact with supply chain partners, OSIOS can perform as a platform enabling the combination of these resources and to produce relational rents (Bensaou and Venkatraman, 1996;Bala and Venkatesh, 2007).…”

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Leveraging open-standard interorganizational information systems for process adaptability and alignment

Chong

Cai

et al. 2019

IJOPM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the value creation mechanisms of open-standard inter-organizational information system (OSIOS), which is a key technology to achieve Industry 4.0. Specifically, this study investigates how the internal assimilation and external diffusion of OSIOS help manufactures facilitate process adaptability and alignment in supply chain network. Design/methodology/approach A survey instrument was designed and administrated to collect data for this research. Using three-stage least squares estimation, the authors empirically tested a number of hypothesized relationships based on a sample of 308 manufacturing firms in China. Findings The results of the study show that OSIOS can perform as value creation mechanisms to enable process adaptability and alignment. In addition, the impact of OSIOS internal assimilation is inversely U-shaped where the positive effect on process adaptability will become negative after an extremum point is reached. Originality/value This study contributes to the existing literature by providing insights on how OSIOS can improve supply chain integration and thus promote the achievement of industry 4.0. By revealing a U-shaped relationship between OSIOS assimilation and process adaptability, this study fills previous research gap by advancing the understanding on the value creation mechanisms of information systems deployment.

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“…In testing for potential mediating effects, the bootstrapping method suggested by Zhao et al [65] was conducted, as this approach is more powerful than Sobel's test [66]. Firstly, we examined the significance of the indirect effect, and the results are shown in Table 5.…”

Section: Post Hoc Assessment Of Mediating Effectsmentioning

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Enterprise Social Media Adoption: Its Impact on Social Capital in Work and Job Satisfaction

Sawang

Sun

2019

Sustainability

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Enterprise social media is increasingly being recognized as an important technical tool to achieve more effective management and sustainable development. Limited research has been conducted on workplace satisfaction in the enterprise social media context. To fill this gap, we propose a research model explaining how employees’ usage of enterprise social media influences job satisfaction from the social capital perspective. Through a survey of 509 respondents, we conceptualize the constructs of enterprise social media use (i.e., work-related use and social-related use), social capital (i.e., bridging social capital and bonding social capital), and job satisfaction. We empirically validate the proposed model. The results largely support the proposed hypotheses. Firstly, both work-related use and social-related use positively impact bridging and bonding social capital. Secondly, bridging and bonding social capital play different roles in job satisfaction. Bonding social capital promotes job satisfaction, while bridging social capital inhibits job satisfaction. Thirdly, work-related use accumulates more bridging social capital, while social-related use is more conducive to the establishment of bonding social capital. Finally, some theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Can intrafirm IT skills benefit interfirm integration and performance?

Cited by 25 publications

References 83 publications

Impact of information technology on supply chain integration and company performance: evidence from cross-border e-commerce companies in China

Impact of information technology on supply chain integration and company performance: evidence from cross-border e-commerce companies in China

Leveraging open-standard interorganizational information systems for process adaptability and alignment

Enterprise Social Media Adoption: Its Impact on Social Capital in Work and Job Satisfaction

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