Examining the relational benefits of improved interfirm information processing capability in buyer-supplier Dyads

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 149-173

  Wang, Eric T G ^a   Tai, Jeffrey C F ^b   Grover, Varun ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information processing view; IT enabled planning and control; Normative contracts; Resource based view; Transaction cost theory

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SUPPLY CHAINS; VISIBILITY;

BUSINESS PROCESS; INFORMATION PROCESSING CAPABILITY; INFORMATION VISIBILITIES; MANUFACTURING FIRMS; PLANNING AND CONTROL; PLS ANALYSIS; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW; TRANSACTION-COST THEORY;

SALES;

EID: 84873964037     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2013/37.1.07     Document Type: Article

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