Studying interorganizational systems using multiple perspectives

  • Authors:
  • Mohammed Ibrahim

  • Affiliations:
  • Tilburg University, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ICEC '04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Electronic commerce
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Interorganizational systems (IOS) are used to facilitate communications and coordination within interorganizational relationships. The different types of interorganizational relationships have different objectives and accordingly require different resources and capabilities. We construct a theoretical model that employs intuitions from multiple theories including political economics, transaction cost economics and the resource-based approach. The model argues that the relationship-specificity of the objectives of the interorganizational relationship (IOR) influences the interorganizational dependence and trust. The dependence and trust affect the investment of relationship-specific IOS related resources and subsequently, combinations of these resources produce relationship-specific IOS related capabilities. These capabilities support the relationship-specific IOR objectives.