DocumentCode
2873009
Title
Information technology and industrial cooperation
Author
Clemons, Eric K. ; Row, Michael C.
Author_Institution
Wharton Sch., Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Volume
iv
fYear
1992
fDate
7-10 Jan 1992
Firstpage
644
Abstract
Cooperation is becoming increasingly important in the modern business environment. The resulting emergence of new forms of organizational relationships is challenging managers to understand the fundamental dynamics of cooperation in order to evaluate and restructure their industrial relationships. IT can play an important role in the process of industrial restructuring, by altering the balance between the benefits of cooperation ad the costs or risks of cooperation. The authors present a framework for investigating cooperative relationships based on extending transactions cost economics. This allows some interesting statements about the role IT plays in cooperative arrangements. In particular, IT has the capability to increase integration without necessarily increasing transaction risks, by reducing required sunk capital and reducing monitoring costs
Keywords
DP management; administrative data processing; manufacturing data processing; transaction processing; cooperative arrangements; cooperative relationships; fundamental dynamics; industrial relationships; industrial restructuring; modern business environment; monitoring costs; organizational relationships; transactions cost economics; Consumer electronics; Costs; Disaster management; Environmental economics; Industrial relations; Information technology; International collaboration; Monitoring; Research and development; Resource management;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
System Sciences, 1992. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location
Kauai, HI
Print_ISBN
0-8186-2420-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HICSS.1992.183372
Filename
183372
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