Never in history have global supply-chain relationships in high-tech electronics firms been more sophisticated, complicated, and almost always tied in some major aspect to China. This research examines how interorganizational (IO) cooperation impacts performance and what role relationship...

RFID (Radio frequency identification) is an emerging technology that attracts attention of supply chain participants. However, most Chinese firms just adopt this innovation without fully utilizing its benefits. Extant IS research also only focuses on factors that impact its adoption rather than...

This study examines the potential of RFID technology to increase the agility of supply-chain e-commerce systems by mitigating the bullwhip effect. The bullwhip effect is a supply-chain phenomenon that reveals a lack of business agility characterized by the amplification of inventory variance....

Business-to-business electronic marketplaces (EMs) were hyped as the future of efficient supply chains and as essential to the growth of e-commerce, but in spite of this promise, many EMs failed in the first few years after 2000. Although numerous studies have involved EMs, little research has...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to better understand how interorganizational relationships influence information and communications technology (ICT)-enabled supply chain (SC) interactions of small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) in developed versus developing economies through the...

RFID technology is an emerging technology that attracts attention of supply chain participants. However, most Chinese supply chain participants just adopt this new innovation without making further steps to fully utilize its benefits. Extant IS research on this technology also only focuses on...