Inter-Organizational Information Systems in the Internet Age

by Sean B. Eom

Overview

This book introduces the inter-organizational information system for managing inter-organizational activities of virtual organizations, extended enterprises, and trans-enterprise systems. Inter-Organizational Information Systems in the Internet Age begins with the introduction to IOIS which provide readers with a bird's eye-view with extensive bibliographies including definitions, concepts, incentives for IOIS development, managerial and technological issues, and much more. This is a collection of more than a dozen of contributed chapters by well-known authors from North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. technologies of IOIS, a review and analysis of empirical research on IOIS adoption and diffusion, a new method for IOIS research, providing empirical evidence on how information systems encourage the creation of strategic networks, inter-organizational information sharing systems/decision support systems, and evaluation of IOIS.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591403180
Publisher:	IGI Global
Publication date:	06/20/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	390
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Sean B. Eom is a tenured Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) and had been appointed as a Copper dome Faculty Fellow in Research at the Harrison College of Business of Southeast Missouri State University during the academic years 1994-1996 and 1998-2000. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Management Science from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in 1985. His other degrees are from the University of South Carolina at Columbia (M.S. in international business), Seoul National University (MBA in International Management ), and Korea University (B.A.). His research areas include decision support systems (DSS), expert systems, and global information systems management. He is the author/editor of five books (published or forthcoming). He has published about 50 refereed journal articles and more than 60 articles in encyclopedia, book chapters, and proceedings of information systems conferences.

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
Section I	Foundations
Chapter I	An Introduction to Inter-Organizational Information Systems with Selected Bibliography	1
Chapter II	A Typology of Inter-Organizational Information Systems	31
Chapter III	Classifying B2B Inter-Organizational Systems: A Role Linkage Perspective	55
Section II	Technology Infrastructure
Chapter IV	Information Technology Infrastructure for Inter-Organizational Systems	76
Chapter V	Application Service Provision: A Working Tool for Inter-Organization Systems in the Internet Age	99
Section III	Systems Analysis/Planning
Chapter VI	Business Associations as Hubs of Inter-Organizational Information Systems for SMEs - The 2Cities Portal	134
Section IV	Systems Management
Chapter VII	IOIS and Interfirm Networks--Interdependencies and Managerial Challenges	170
Section V	Implementation and Applications
Chapter VIII	Inter-Organizational Information System Adoption and Diffusion: A Review and Analysis of Empirical Research	214
Chapter IX	Evolution of DSS from Single User DSS to Inter-Organizational DSS	231
Chapter X	An Examination of Inter-Organizational Decision Support Systems	248
Section VI	Evaluation
Chapter XI	Evaluating Inter-Organizational Information Systems	266
Section VII	Research Method and Empirical Study
Chapter XII	Comparative Pairs Analysis for Inter-Organizational Information Systems (IOIS) Research	297
Chapter XIII	Empirical Evidence on How Information Technology Encourages the Creation of Strategic Networks	328
	About the Authors	361
	Index	370