Preliminary study collaboration method through trust values for e-supply chain integrator: A-case study of Malaysian construction industry

Limited trust, cooperation and communication have been identified as some of the issues that hinder collaboration among business partners. The same applies to the acceptance of e-supply chain integrator among organizations that involve in the same industry. On top of that, the huge number of components in the industry also makes it impossible to include everyone in the integrator. Hence, this study intends to propose a method for identifying “trusted” collaborators for inclusion into an e-supply chain integrator. For the purpose of constructing and validating the method, the Malaysian construction industry is chosen as the case study due to its size and importance to the economy. Thus, this paper puts forward the background of the research, some relevant literatures which lead to trust values elements formulation and a glimpse of the proposed method for trusted partner selection. Besides, future work is also presented to highlight the next step of this research.