The Impact of E‐collaboration Tools on Firms' Performance

Abstract

In this paper, we focus on the relative efficiency of different e‐collaboration tools and their impact on the performance of individual firms positioned along the supply chain. In exploratory study, the supply chain of one large telecommunications OEM was analyzed in two consecutive phases, namely a detailed case study and an electronic survey. This led to the examination of an entire supply chain from both upstream and downstream perspectives. Supply chain execution and supply chain planning e‐collaboration tools were identified and their relative efficiency was assessed. We attempt to map out the tools' potential to enhance the performance of, individual firms, in particular the link between e‐collaboration configurations and key performance dimensions.

Enabling the business strategy of SMEs through e‐business capabilities

“…It consists in integrating and sharing, through the Internet or extranets, information on the extended value chain linking the firm with its upstream and downstream business partners. This allows stakeholders within the same industry or network organisation that share the same objectives to collaborate in the design, development, production and management of products and services at different stages of their life-cycle (Cassivi, Lefebvre, Lefebvre and Léger, 2004).…”

Non-Normality Propagation among Latent Variables and Indicators in PLS-SEM Simulations

“…The simple model shown in Figure 1 illustrates the main elements of any model used in PLS-SEM. Our simple model follows from past empirical research (Cassivi, Lefebvre, Lefebvre, & Léger, 2004;Chen, Chen, & Capistrano, 2013). It contains two latent variables, e-collaboration technology use (T) and job performance (P), which are measured indirectly through three indicators each.…”

Erfolgswirkung des internetbasierten Supply Chain Managements

“…Zum anderen weisen die Studien aber teilweise erhebliche Schwächen auf. Zu nennen sind insbesondere die mehrheitlich fehlende theoretische Fundierung, der mangelnde Nachweis einer Wirkungsbeziehung zwischen Internet(technologie)einsatz und Supply Chain Management-Erfolg (Sanders/Premus 2002, Cagliano et al 2003, Yücesan/van Wassenhove 2003, Cassivi et al 2004) sowie die unzureichende Berücksichtigung des Einflusses situativer Variablen (Frohlich 2002, Ovalle/Marquez 2003, Cassivi et al 2004, Iyer et al 2004. Daneben erfolgt eine Beschränkung auf zulieferer-bzw.…”

“…Daneben erfolgt eine Beschränkung auf zulieferer-bzw. kundenseitige Integrationsaspekte (Frohlich 2002, Frohlich/Westbrook 2002, Barua et al 2004), E-Collaboration Tools (Ovalle/ Marquez 2003, Cassivi et al 2004) oder den B2B E-Commerce (Iyer et al 2004).…”

“…nur eine Industrie (Cassivi et al 2004) betrachtet. Darüber hinaus ist die Aussagefähigkeit der Studien auf den anglo-amerikanischen Sprachraum begrenzt, während für den deutschsprachigen keine Untersuchung identifiziert werden konnte.…”