A Study on IOS Innovation, Interfirm Reengineering and Cooperation Performance

The information system transcending enterprise boundaries and shared by two or more enterprises is defined as inter-organizational information system, IOS for short. Interfirm process reengineering is a logical extension of the business process innovation inside a firm. The paper presents a model of relationship among IOS innovation, interfirm process reengineering and cooperation performance. Taking two China's successful IOS cases as study object, The paper investigate interfirm business process innovation made by IOS from four aspect, namely, integration, transfer, elimination and creation of inter-firm business processes. The model has been testified by the fact in the cases.