An Empirical Study of Inter-Organizational Relationship in Condition of Environmental Uncertainty: from View of Information Processing Theory

Author

Zhong, Qiuyan ; Qu, Gang ; Min, Qingfei

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Dalian Univ. of Technol., Dalian

fYear

2007

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

6215

Lastpage

6218

Abstract

With changing of environmental uncertainty, inter-organizational coordination and IT support is becoming a trend. Basing on information processing theory (IPT) and empirical studies in 2 large-scale shipbuilding and 4 large-scale automobile companies, this paper explored relationship of environmental uncertainty, inter-organizational coordination, inter-organizational IT support and coordination effectiveness. Managerial implications of the IPT and inter-organizational information systems are also discussed.

Keywords

automobile industry; environmental management; shipbuilding industry; automobile companies; environmental uncertainty; information processing theory; interorganizational IT support; interorganizational coordination; interorganizational relationship; shipbuilding companies; Automobiles; Costs; Environmental management; Information processing; Information systems; Large-scale systems; Performance gain; Technology management; Uncertainty; Vehicle dynamics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2007. WiCom 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1311-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2007.1523

Filename

4341298