This paper provides insights into the ways global sea ports are challenged by the need for managing complex information flows, given the developments in global supply chains. We argue that special port IT capabilities are needed to address these challenges by sharing information and planning and...

In this paper we present an exploratory case study of a business community platform in a sea port setting. We focus on pricing challenges faced by this type of inter-organizational information systems. We find that traditional cost based pricing methods in the form of transaction and...

Many fi rms have to use more than one inter-organizational information system (IOS) to support their communications with partners. The use of multiple systems can reduce the full benefits of IOS adoption. To account for this, we introduce a new concept: the landscape of inter-organizational...