IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/ininma/v31y2011i4p374-384.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Inter-organizational relationships and information sharing in supply chains

Author

Listed:
  • Cheng, Jao-Hong

Abstract

This paper presents a research model to examine factors influencing information sharing and implementation in inter-organizational relationships. The model comprises seven research hypotheses with six constructs, including relational benefits, relational proclivity, connectedness, power symmetry, dysfunctional conflict and information sharing. The constructs are measured by well-supported measures in the literature. The hypotheses are tested via an empirical study of supply chains. Data are collected from 589 manufacturing firms that are among the top 1000 Taiwanese manufacturing firms of 2009 listed by Business Weekly. The results of the empirical study suggest that the role played by relational benefits is critical in ensuring the information sharing as it reinforces the connectedness between supply chain members and mitigates the dysfunctional conflicts in the process. The findings of the study provide useful insights into how supply chain members should reinforce their collaborative behaviors and activities so as to improve their relational benefits and connectedness and in turn enhance information sharing for the supply chain as a whole.

Suggested Citation

  • Cheng, Jao-Hong, 2011. "Inter-organizational relationships and information sharing in supply chains," International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier, vol. 31(4), pages 374-384.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ininma:v:31:y:2011:i:4:p:374-384
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2010.09.004
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0268401210001404
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2010.09.004?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. David A Griffith & Michael G Harvey, 2001. "A Resource Perspective of Global Dynamic Capabilities," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 32(3), pages 597-606, September.
    2. Xu, Kefeng & Dong, Yan & Evers, Philip T., 2001. "Towards better coordination of the supply chain," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 37(1), pages 35-54, March.
    3. Rose, Gregory M. & Shoham, Aviv, 2004. "Interorganizational task and emotional conflict with international channels of distribution," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 57(9), pages 942-950, September.
    4. Pereira, Jorge Verissimo, 2009. "The new supply chain's frontier: Information management," International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier, vol. 29(5), pages 372-379.
    5. Larson, Andrea, 1991. "Partner networks: Leveraging external ties to improve entrepreneurial performance," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 6(3), pages 173-188, May.
    6. Xiaohua Lin & Richard Germain, 1998. "Sustaining Satisfactory Joint Venture Relationships: The Role of Conflict Resolution Strategy," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 29(1), pages 179-196, March.
    7. Li, Suhong & Ragu-Nathan, Bhanu & Ragu-Nathan, T.S. & Subba Rao, S., 2006. "The impact of supply chain management practices on competitive advantage and organizational performance," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 34(2), pages 107-124, April.
    8. Alfred A. Marcus & Marc H. Anderson, 2006. "A General Dynamic Capability: Does it Propagate Business and Social Competencies in the Retail Food Industry?," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 43(1), pages 19-46, January.
    9. Hans B. Thorelli, 1986. "Networks: Between markets and hierarchies," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 7(1), pages 37-51, January.
    10. Akbar Zaheer & N. Venkatraman, 1995. "Relational governance as an interorganizational strategy: An empirical test of the role of trust in economic exchange," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 16(5), pages 373-392.
    11. Lisa Hope Pelled, 1996. "Demographic Diversity, Conflict, and Work Group Outcomes: An Intervening Process Theory," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 7(6), pages 615-631, December.
    12. Steven C. Michael, 2000. "Investments to create bargaining power: the case of franchising," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(4), pages 497-514, April.
    13. Jean Hartley & John Benington, 2006. "Copy and Paste, or Graft and Transplant? Knowledge Sharing Through Inter-Organizational Networks," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(2), pages 101-108, April.
    14. Wolfgang Ulaga & Andreas Eggert, 2006. "Value-Based Differentiation in Business Relationships: Gaining and Sustaining Key Supplier Status," Post-Print hal-00482456, HAL.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sushil,, 2018. "Incorporating polarity of relationships in ISM and TISM for theory building in information and organization management," International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 38-51.
    2. Choi, Sujeong & Ko, Ilsang, 2012. "Leveraging electronic collaboration to promote interorganizational learning," International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier, vol. 32(6), pages 550-559.
    3. Rasool Lavaei Adaryani & Khalil Kalantari & Ali Asadi & Amir Alambeigi & Hesamedin Gholami & Naser Seifollahi, 2023. "Information sharing antecedents in the supply chain: a dynamic network perspective," Operations Management Research, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 887-903, June.
    4. Mamonov, Stanislav & Triantoro, Tamilla Mavlanova, 2018. "The strategic value of data resources in emergent industries," International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier, vol. 39(C), pages 146-155.
    5. Shekhar & Debadyuti Das, 2023. "Enablers of ‘Creating Shared Value’: A Total Interpretive Structural Modeling–Polarity Approach," Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Springer;Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management, vol. 24(2), pages 291-318, June.
    6. Yuan, Ruizhi & Luo, Jun & Liu, Martin J. & Yannopoulou, Natalia, 2022. "“I am proud of my job”: Examining the psychological mechanism underlying technological innovation's effects on employee brand ambassadorship," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 182(C).
    7. Cheng, Jao-Hong & Fu, Ya-Chi, 2013. "Inter-organizational relationships and knowledge sharing through the relationship and institutional orientations in supply chains," International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier, vol. 33(3), pages 473-484.
    8. Li, Siyu & Huo, Baofeng & Wang, Qiang, 2023. "The impact of buyer-supplier communication on performance: A contingency and configuration approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 257(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Cheng, Jao-Hong, 2011. "Inter-organizational relationships and knowledge sharing in green supply chains—Moderating by relational benefits and guanxi," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 47(6), pages 837-849.
    2. Cheng, Jao-Hong & Fu, Ya-Chi, 2013. "Inter-organizational relationships and knowledge sharing through the relationship and institutional orientations in supply chains," International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier, vol. 33(3), pages 473-484.
    3. Griessmair, Michele & Hussain, Dildar & Windsperger, Josef, 2014. "Trust and the tendency towards multi-unit franchising: A relational governance view," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 67(11), pages 2337-2345.
    4. Hillebrand, Bas & Biemans, Wim G., 2003. "The relationship between internal and external cooperation: literature review and propositions," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 56(9), pages 735-743, September.
    5. Hartono, Edward & Li, Xiaotong & Na, Kwan-Sik & Simpson, James T., 2010. "The role of the quality of shared information in interorganizational systems use," International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier, vol. 30(5), pages 399-407.
    6. Wei-ping Wu & Alicia Leung, 2005. "Does a Micro-Macro Link Exist Between Managerial Value of Reciprocity, Social Capital and Firm Performance? The Case of SMEs in China," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 22(4), pages 445-463, December.
    7. Bernard Baudry & Virgile Chassagnon, 2012. "The vertical network organization as a specific governance structure: what are the challenges for incomplete contracts theories and what are the theoretical implications for the boundaries of the (hub," Journal of Management & Governance, Springer;Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA), vol. 16(2), pages 285-303, May.
    8. Jianhua Yang & Yuying Liu & Yajun Jia, 2022. "Influence of Trust Relationships with Suppliers on Manufacturer Resilience in COVID-19 Era," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-23, July.
    9. Sroka Włodzimierz, 2011. "Problem of Trust in Alliance Networks," Organizacija, Sciendo, vol. 44(4), pages 101-108, July.
    10. Lui, Steven S. & Ngo, Hang-yue & Hon, Alice H.Y., 2006. "Coercive strategy in interfirm cooperation: Mediating roles of interpersonal and interorganizational trust," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 59(4), pages 466-474, April.
    11. Régis Dumoulin & Pierre-Xavier Meschi & Thomas Uhlig, 2000. "Management, contrôle et performance des réseaux d'entreprises : étude empirique de 55 réseaux d'alliances," Revue Finance Contrôle Stratégie, revues.org, vol. 3(2), pages 81-112, June.
    12. White, George O. & Boddewyn, Jean J. & Galang, Roberto Martin N., 2015. "Legal system contingencies as determinants of political tie intensity by wholly owned foreign subsidiaries: Insights from the Philippines," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 50(2), pages 342-356.
    13. Juan Manuel Ramon-Jeronimo & Raquel Florez-Lopez & Maria Angeles Ramon-Jeronimo, 2017. "Understanding the Generation of Value along Supply Chains: Balancing Control Information and Relational Governance Mechanisms in Downstream and Upstream Relationships," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(8), pages 1-31, August.
    14. Virgile Chassagnon, 2008. "Qu'est-ce qu'une firme (-réseau) ?," Post-Print halshs-00374758, HAL.
    15. Zhe Zhang & Ming Jia & Difang Wan, 2012. "When does a partner’s reputation impact cooperation effects in partnerships?," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 29(3), pages 547-571, September.
    16. Vivek, Shiri D. & Richey Jr., R. Glenn & Dalela, Vivek, 2009. "A longitudinal examination of partnership governance in offshoring: A moving target," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 44(1), pages 16-30, January.
    17. Vos, F.G.S. & Van der Lelij, R. & Schiele, H. & Praas, N.H.J., 2021. "Mediating the impact of power on supplier satisfaction: Do buyer status and relational conflict matter?," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 239(C).
    18. Vijayasarathy, Leo R., 2010. "Supply integration: An investigation of its multi-dimensionality and relational antecedents," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 124(2), pages 489-505, April.
    19. Dapeng Zhang & Xinbo Sun & Yide Liu & Shunyi Zhou & Hongfeng Zhang, 2018. "The Effects of Integrative Leadership on the Enterprise Synergy Innovation Performance in a Supply Chain Cooperative Network," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(7), pages 1-20, July.
    20. Müller, Dirk, 2010. "Alliance Coordination, Dysfunctions, and the Protection of Idiosyncratic Knowledge in Strategic Learning Alliances," EconStor Preprints 41039, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:ininma:v:31:y:2011:i:4:p:374-384. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-information-management .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.