Information technology and industrial cooperation
Clemons, E.K.
Row, M.C.
Wharton Sch., Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA ;
This paper appears in: System Sciences, 1992. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Hawaii International Conference on
Publication Date: 7-10 Jan 1992
Volume: iv,
On page(s): 644-653 vol.4
Meeting Date: 01/07/1992 - 01/10/1992
Location: Kauai, HI, USA
ISBN: 0-8186-2420-5
References Cited: 20
INSPEC Accession Number: 4249393
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/HICSS.1992.183372
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06
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
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