Abstract
To realize the anticipated benefits of inter-firm relationships, firms need to leverage information flows within the supply chains. While the initiatives to foster collaboration have gained momentum with the availability of advanced interorganizational information systems to support information sharing among supply chain partners, building such systems needs a better understanding of how firms share information across organizational boundaries and whether suppliers and buyers share the same view on this issue. Drawing on strategic management of interorganizational relationships, resource dependence perspective, and institutional theory, we examine strategic, power, and institutional factors that affect information sharing in supply chains. We test the proposed research model using separate supplier and buyer samples. While we have found general support to the proposed model from both samples, the results reveal that suppliers and buyers hold different opinions on how these factors affect their information sharing with supply chain partners. Implications are discussed based on the results.
Recommended Citation
Tang, Xinlin; Patnayakuni, Ravi; and Rai, Arun, "Why Do They Share Information with Supply Chain Partners? A Comparison of Supplier and Buyer Perspectives" (2011). ICIS 2011 Proceedings. 6.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2011/proceedings/generaltopics/6
Why Do They Share Information with Supply Chain Partners? A Comparison of Supplier and Buyer Perspectives
To realize the anticipated benefits of inter-firm relationships, firms need to leverage information flows within the supply chains. While the initiatives to foster collaboration have gained momentum with the availability of advanced interorganizational information systems to support information sharing among supply chain partners, building such systems needs a better understanding of how firms share information across organizational boundaries and whether suppliers and buyers share the same view on this issue. Drawing on strategic management of interorganizational relationships, resource dependence perspective, and institutional theory, we examine strategic, power, and institutional factors that affect information sharing in supply chains. We test the proposed research model using separate supplier and buyer samples. While we have found general support to the proposed model from both samples, the results reveal that suppliers and buyers hold different opinions on how these factors affect their information sharing with supply chain partners. Implications are discussed based on the results.