Exploring the performance impact of web-based direct procurement systems: from the perspective of process integration

  • Authors:
  • Yi-Ming Tai

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Management, National Pingtung Institute of Commerce, Pingtung, Taiwan, R.O.C.

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In addressing the issue of value derived from Web-enabled direct procurement, this study attempts to investigate the impact of Web-based direct procurement systems on intra-and inter-organizational process integration capabilities and organizational performance. A sample of 131 manufacturing firms with experience participating in government-subsidized e-business development projects is surveyed, with resulting data subject to partial least squares analysis to investigate the performance impacts of Web-based direct procurement systems. The results reveal that implementing Web-based direct procurement systems enables firms to improve their intra-and inter-organizational process integration capabilities which, in turn, yield sustained gains in organizational performance.