Authors:
Khalid Al-Mutawah
;
Vincent Lee
and
Yen Cheung
Affiliation:
Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia
Keyword(s):
Corporate culture, electronic supply chain, performance measurement.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
B2B, B2C and C2C
;
B2C/B2B Considerations
;
Business and Social Applications
;
Case Studies
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
e-Procurement and Web-Based Supply Chain Management
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Process Design and Organisational Issues in E-Commerce
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Simulation Tools and Platforms
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
The dynamic nature of today’s marketplace makes the survival of individual organizations too difficult. Therefore, researchers are seeking new opportunities on forming collaborative networks like supply chains (SCs). Nonetheless, the transition from competitive to cooperative relationships has been difficult for many managers, as the necessary changes in corporate culture have proven quite difficult, thus organizations will have considerable difficulties in partnering with external entities if they cannot develop a partnering culture. Consequently, new research suggests traditional SCs with long-term relationships continue to exist, under a new name of alliances called “e-supply chains”. One of the primary benefits of the e-SC is that it allows firms to realize many benefits that were associated with the electronic business, yet in a SC management context. The purpose of this research is to identify the aforementioned cultural challenge on e-SCs context. To achieve this we will inves
tigate two case studies; where one represents an e-SC and another for a traditional SC. A comparison between the two cases, suggests that e-SCs are less effective by changes on corporate culture than traditional SCs when forming SCs.
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