Leveraging standard electronic business interfaces to enable adaptive supply chain partnerships

Information Systems Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 260-279

  Malhotra, Arvind ^a   Gosain, Sanjay ^b   Sawy, Omar A El ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Capital Group Companies Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive partnerships; Bonding; Boundary objects; Bridging; Digitally enabled extended enterprise; Standard electronic business interfaces; Supply chain partnering

Indexed keywords

BONDING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE PARTNERSHIPS; BOUNDARY OBJECTS; BRIDGING; ELECTRONIC BUSINESS; EXTENDED ENTERPRISE;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 42649109384     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1070.0132     Document Type: Article

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