Strategic relationships in a small business context: The impact of information quality and continuous quality improvement

Abstract

This study examines the performance between operational variables for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) within the context of interorganizational relationships. Specifically, it investigates the role of information quality and continuous quality improvement and the varying importance that SMEs place on each of these constructs. The sample consists of 134 vendors of a large university in the southwestern region of the United States.The results indicate that there is a positive relationship between information quality and continuous quality improvement with performance in SMEs. Implications for both research and practice, as well as ideas for future research, are discussed.

The Role of Information Quality in Healthcare Organizations: A Multi-Disciplinary Literature Review

“…Interestingly, noneconomic impact of IQ on organizations and processes was only found in 12 of 649 research articles. This finding has later been confirmed by several researchers claiming for limitations in the IQ literature, e.g., of IQ dimensions' relationship to business process improvement and redesign [29,42,45], lack of attention to IQ dimensions in decisions related to organizational performance [46,59], lack of attention to IQ in business process management and process execution, [e.g., 36], and limited descriptions of organizational performance as independent variable in IQ research [7].…”