Coordinated Border Management Through Digital Trade Infrastructures and Trans-National Government Cooperation: The FloraHolland Case

A framework for voluntary business-government information sharing

“…The authors would like to thank the CORE and the PROFILE consortium partners for the fruitful collaboration and discussions on the topic in the broader project context, as well as the GIQ editor and the anonymous reviewers for the constructive comments and guidance during the review process. This paper is an extended paper of an earlier paper that was presented at the eGov'2017 conference (Rukanova, Huiden, & Tan, 2017).…”

“…So far, research about the topic of voluntary business-government information sharing is limited (Gascó, Feng, & Gil-Garcia, 2018;Susha & Gil-Garcia, 2019;Rukanova, Huiden, & Tan, 2017); this paper seeks to help fill that gap. The main questions that we aim to explore in this paper are: Can voluntary information sharing of business data with government bring benefits?…”

Enabling Supply Chain Visibility and Compliance Through Voluntary Information Sharing With Customs: A Case Study of the Global Quality Traceability System in China Customs

“…Therefore, developing and operating a data pipeline on a global scale must be done by the private sector since government have no jurisdictions outside their countries (Klievink et al, 2012). In current data pipeline research, the initiatives for data pipeline development are mostly business-driven, such as the FloraHolland initiative (Rukanova et al, 2017), the OneTouch case (Hu et al, 2016) and the TradeLens platform (Jensen et al, 2019). The scope of information exchange covered by the data pipelines above are from the seller/consignor to the buyer/consignee and the interactions in between include B2B, B2G and G2G (Rukanova et al,2018).…”

“…In addition to the voluntary information sharing with Customs, the current research also shows that combining data pipeline capability with Coordinated Border Management (CBM) can bring more benefits for stakeholders. As shown in the FloraHolland initiative, the collaboration of Customs and plant protection organisations was fostered by parallel procedures based on the data pipeline (Rukanova et al, 2017). This indicates the government may play a bigger role in voluntary information sharing in the context of a data pipeline especially in the case of multiple border agencies.…”

“…In addition to customs authorities, other border control agencies have also called for seamless information exchange along the supply chain. The combination of data pipeline capabilities with the CBM approach was also exemplified in the FloraHolland case (Rukanova et al, 2017). In that case, the agencies cooperating with customs were the plant protection organisations.…”