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...ame number of units at a greater margin (i.e., premium price). Furthermore, because a superior cost structure enables greater pricing flexibility as well as the ability to increase available surplus (=-=Barua et al., 2004-=-; Porter and Millar, 1985; Zou et al., 2003), a firm that can exploit its resource-capability combinations to effectively attain an efficiency-based competitive advantage should be able to improve its...

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...essure to be critical determinants of EDI deployment. Hart and Saunders [61] argue that a business partner’s influence and readiness are significant factors in the EDI adoption decision. Barua et al. =-=[11]-=- empirically found customer and supplier readiness to enhance e-business capabilities that ultimately led to improved operational and financial performance. Potential impacts of legal, regulatory and ...

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...01) from those that are not, it is increasingly common to talk of the extent to which a business is engaged in using the internet to create value or to coordinate value activities with customers (see =-=Barua et al., 2004-=-). Thus, our review is not limited to pure dot com businesses or to businesses that sell digitized products or services. Our paper makes a contribution to the theory, discourse and practice of interna...

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... imperative requirement for successful SCM and hassbeen associated with significant supply chain efficiency improvements (Lee and Billington 1992,sMukhopadhyay et al. 1995, Gunasekaran and Ngai 2004, =-=Barua et al. 2004-=-, Boone and Ganeshans2007).sHowever, prior research has overlooked a key modus operandi in interorganizational informationssystems use: whether the data exchange is fully automated (system-to-system i...

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...e inter-organizational relationships into a crucial managerial ability (Ritter et al. 2003). Although there is a little doubt about the potential benefits that BNs can accrue from the use of new ICT (=-=Barua et al. 2004-=-; Vervest et al. 2005), there are few research studies that look at managerial practices in the design and operation of business networks enabled by ICT (ICT-enabled BNs). In this paper we explore the...

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... question or the question did not apply to the organisation. The ‘notsapplicable’ option was therefore added to each question to minimise the risk of obtainingsinaccurate responses from participants (=-=Barua et al. 2004-=-). The ‘not applicable’ answerscan also be considered as an indicator of either an irrelevant question or a respondentswho did not belong to the sample frame. This kind of missing data is called ‘user...

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...y chain integration, supply chain information sharing, and supply chain coordination, the perspective of which represents typical but important activities in the supply chain process (Lee 2004). Each of these three aspects reflects a firm’s ability to perform internal cross-functional as well as inter-firm business activities within supply chains. Developing this kind of inter-firm capability is a long-term process which requires firms to make a series of integrated strategic decisions and moves related to IT resources so as to blend them with organizational processes and knowledge resources (Barua et al. 2004) and thus can be regarded as a valuable source of sustained competitive advantage (Barney 1991). Firms able to employ IT capability to develop a high-level of IT-enabled supply chain capability which involves supply chain activity integration, real-time information sharing, and inter-firm coordination processes among supply chain partners are likely to develop organizational agility (Lee 2004). For example, Cisco uses e-hub to build strong digital connection with its manufacturers and partners. Such IT capability not only enables Cisco to take advantage of agile, adaptable and aligned supply c...

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...all, today’s ICT decision makers face tremendous pressure not to miss critical business opportunities as well as not to make ICT investments that fail to deliver business value and expected benefits (=-=Barua, Konana, Whinston, & Yin, 2004-=-). 1.1.1. The Complexity of ICT Adoption Decisions The adoption and implementation of ICT continues to be an interesting research topic. Advances in ICT provide organizations with a plethora of potent...