Performance benefits through integration hubs

  • Authors:
  • Ellen Christiaanse

  • Affiliations:
  • Esade Business School Barcelona, Spain and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - Transforming China
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Some recent integration hubs provide configurations that facilitate optimization beyond the buyer-supplier dyad provided by traditional point-to-point integration. We argue that coordination so far has been preliminary dyadic but that a new era of network-level optimization is possible, providing future benefits beyond dyadic coordination and optimization mechanisms through the use of integration hubs and B2B marketplaces.