Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies
Communications of the ACM
A new framework for interorganizational systesms based on the linkage of participants' roles
Information and Management
Mission Critical: Realizing the Promise of Enterprise Systems
Mission Critical: Realizing the Promise of Enterprise Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
Significance of partnerships in the management of interorganisational systems
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Adaptability and accountability of information architectures in interorganizational networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance
Deriving industrial logistics hub reference models for manufacturing based economies
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Willingness to share information in a supply chain: A partnership-data-process perspective
Information and Management
Information Sharing Strategies in Business-to-Business E-Hubs: An Agent-Based Study
International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies
Innovation Managed and IT Infrastructure Capability
International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications
Supply chain product visibility: Methods, systems and impacts
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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In many markets it is becoming impossible to remove or ignore sources of turbulence and volatility. Hence, supply chain managers must accept uncertainty, but still need to develop a strategy that enables them to match supply and demand at an acceptable cost. The ability to achieve this has been termed supply chain agility. Information and, importantly, agile information systems have been recognised as being a critical factor in achieving agility in the supply chain. To date studies have suggested that high levels of coordination between organisations, necessary for improved supply chain performance, demand high levels of integration between partners' information systems. However, these high levels of integration reduce the ability to frequently and rapidly make changes to trading relationships, something that is a prerequisite of the agility paradigm. This paper seeks to explore how a number of emergent information systems offer the possibility of both deep integration and increased flexibility. This paper is exploratory in nature. A single case study of an organisation seeking to improve supply chain agility is reported. Existing literature and the insights provided by the case study are combined to identify a number of themes for further study.