In the age of the smart machine: the future of work and power
In the age of the smart machine: the future of work and power
McKesson Drug Company: a case study of Economost—a strategic information system
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special Issue: Decision Support and Knowledge-based Systems
The impact of interorganizational systems on the form and climate of seller-buyer relationships
ICIS '89 Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies
Communications of the ACM
Information and Organizations
Telecommunications and Economic Activity: An Analysis of Granger Causality
Journal of Management Information Systems
Information and Management
Redesigning business networks: reference process, network and service map
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Towards Information Security Ontology in Business Networks
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XX
Business Network-Based Value Creation in Electronic Commerce
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Business rules management in healthcare: A lifecycle approach
Decision Support Systems
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Electronic integration--the use of information technology to reengineer key business processes and business relations--enables new forms of organization that transcend traditional industry and firm boundaries. Indeed, electronic integration strategies alter the fundamental structure of both firms as well as their environments, requiring a shift in the study of organizations from the level of a focal firm to that of the business network. The business network represents the pattern of interdependent relationships between the activities of a given firm and those of other firms in its competitive environment that influence each other's strategies.We analyze here the effects of electronic integration on organization structure and competitive processes at the level of the business network. We propose the roles-linkage perspective as a useful abstraction to characterize the business network and guide research on the effects of information technology on industry structures. Building and analyzing the effects of electronic filing on the tax preparation market, we build a preliminary model of how electronic integration strategies alter roles and linkages in a business network.The contributions of this article are a provisional theory of electronic integration at the level of the network, and an abstraction mechanism to characterize and study business networks.