Institutional isomorphism and the adoption of information technology for supply chain management

Author name used in this publication: Kee-hung Lai2005-2006 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishe

The key role of institution pressure on green supply chain practice and the firm's performance

Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate the influence of isomorphism institutional theory on green supply chain management (GSCM) and firm performance by using the structural equation model (SEM) to explain the driving factors of reducing the impact of environmental processes on the firm. Design/methodology/approach: Structural equation model (SEM) to explain the driving factors of reducing the impact of environmental processes on the firm. Findings: Isomorphism institutional factors showed a statistically significant positive effect on GSCM practices. Moreover, GSCM practices showed a statistically significant positive effect on firm performance. Under the literature review, customer pressure and top management support are primary factors to achieve GSCM practices and potential to establish firm performance. Research limitations/implications: First, the common hypothesizes do not provide insight into all the relationships that warrant additional inspection. Second, Thailand manufacturers have experiences pressures from foreign customers and competitors but they have opportunities to learn from them to better improvement GSCM practices. Practical implications: Results may highlight pressure for greening and which more efforts are needed for GSCM practices. GSCM practices generally require more effort due to need for collaborating with customer and competitor. Thailand manufacturers are increasingly confronted with isomorphism institutional pressure to implement GSCM practices. Social implications: It is useful the Thailand government promotes GSCM by creating an awareness of the benefits. GSCM can help to alleviate the question of the followers about implementing GSCM and decrease their risk association with the environmental adoption. Originality/value: Research creates clarity of the relationship between isomorphism institutional pressures, top management support, and performance in Thailand, which is a developing country with environmental investment concerns that affect profits from the operations of the firm.Peer Reviewe

Organization isomorphism and the search for knowledge and its influence on innovative performance: A study at APL Taquaral Goiás, Brazil

This research sought to analyse the occurrence of organizational isomorphism and search for knowledge among the companies participating in the Local Productive Arrangement of Confections of Taquaral - GO, observing the effects of these elements on the innovative performance of the arrangement. As a methodological path, the exploratory and descriptive nature is recognized. As for the research design, it is understood as a survey, using the scale created by Zhang & Hu (2017). The practice of imitation (organizational isomorphism) by companies was observed, taking into account the two types of knowledge: exploratory and exploitative. It was found that there are institutional practices and strategic actions by the cluster organizations that have isomorphic characteristics, both for coercive and normative nature and for mimetics, in individual and also integrated formats. A framework was developed that demonstrated how organizational isomorphism influences the search for knowledge (Exploratory and Exploitative) in which it was seen that companies are able to innovate in models and materials through imitation, but innovation of processes and new technologies is quite incipient, due to technical and financial incapacity

Outlining the potential of e-procurement adoption among suppliers in Malaysia

This paper conducts a general discussion literature review, explaining the e-Procurement concept and providing the potential of e-Procurement adoption among suppliers in Malaysia. This paper presents the difference between procurement and purchasing also the difference between traditional procurement and e-Procurement. There are many positive impacts and advantages of e-Procurement to government and suppliers. Suppliers benefit significantly from e-Procurement in terms of new market creation, additional revenue opportunities, competitive advantage, cost savings, customer satisfaction and operational efficiencies.By utilizing the e-Procurement system, the employees are able to increase direct access via supplier’s websites to verify price tips, technological requirements and to visualize product images as well as full specification of product.E-Procurement is able to generate electronic applications, creating and approving purchase requisitions and propose purchase orders online to selected suppliers.This in turn creates forces on Malaysian suppliers to adopt e-Procurement to be competitive in the current industr

An Institutional Theory perspective on sustainable practices across the dairy supply chain

AbstractThe need for sustainable practices in the food supply chain, particularly in the area of energy reduction, is becoming acute. The food industry currently has to contend with multiple competing pressures alongside the new challenges of sustainable production. We applied Institutional Theory to explore the role of supermarkets in the development of legitimate sustainable practices across the dairy supply chains. The paper focuses on dairy supply chain organizations and their consumption of energy. We conducted 70 semi-structured telephone interviews with various stakeholders across the supply chain. Findings revealed that the majority of actors in the supply chain identified supermarkets as the dominant player, and that the supermarkets exert pressure on other smaller organizations across the supply chain. Although some organizations wished to pursue a sustainable agenda through integrating new rules and legitimate practices within their own organization, the dominant logic appeared to be one of cost reduction and profit maximization. There was also evidence that supermarkets and other large organizations attempt to replicate publicly available information on green successes for image purposes. We conclude that the dominant logic of cost reduction is so well established that challenging the dominant logic may prove difficult. The challenge is therefore to complement the dominant logic with sustainable practices across the whole supply chain, a role Government needs to play. This will require a broader more systemic approach to encouraging sustainable practices including investment and financing practices, so that all members of the dairy supply chain can co-operate and contribute to energy reduction

The Effects of Relational and Institutional Factors on Electronic Supply Chain Management Adoption: Does Organizational Culture Matter?

Drawing upon relational exchange theory, institutional theory, organizational culture and IS theories, we derive a model to study factors affecting firms’ electronic supply chain management adoption. In particular, we examine the effect of trust, normative, mimetic and coercive pressures on eSCM adoption. Also, we assess the moderating role played by organizational culture in this effect. The research model is tested by data collected with executive MBA students enrolled with a large university in China. Managerial implications and theoretical contribution of this study are discussed

Politically Sensitive IT Practice: A case story of wireless network implementation

Drawing from social perspectives, we narrate a case story of wireless network implementation situated in a socially connected but politically segregated environment. We seek to understand how the interplay between radical IT implementation and organizational structure shapes and reshapes organisational members‟ perception of implementation success and how unintended consequences of popular mobile technology emerge in a politically sensitive workplace. Detailed narrative analysis reveals that many subtle conflicting issues intertwined among various stakeholder groups. Those issues not just reshape how organisational members perceive IT implementation success but also how future IT management take place. The insights gained from this case story thus suggest that a more socially and politically sensitive IT practice in general and wireless network management in particular might be essential in the contemporary service oriented IT environment

A coordination-theoretic investigation of the impact of electronic integration on logistics performance

Author name used in this publication: Kee-Hung LaiAuthor name used in this publication: T. C. E. Cheng2007-2008 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishe

Factors Influencing Business Intelligence Data Collection Strategies

Abstract: This research purposed to examines the influence of institutional isomorphism and competitive pressure on business intelligence (BI) data collection strategies which are problem driven and comprehensive through 3 purposes of BI (insightfulness, consistency, organizational transformation). The populations of this research are managers and employees who are working at the same level as the manager at PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk. in Witel Yogyakarta Special Region, Witel Purwokerto, and Division Digital Business Central Jakarta. Statistic tool used to test the hypothesis is the structural equation model (SEM) with SmartPLS software. Data were collected from 96 respondents which spread to three regions of Telkom office with direct questionnaire method. The result of this research shows that only BI purpose consistency that did not have a positive relation to the strategy comprehensive BI data collection strategy.Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh isomorfisma institusional dan tekanan kompetitif terhadap strategi pengumpulan data intelijen bisnis (BI) yang didorong oleh masalah dan komprehensif melalui 3 tujuan BI (insightfulness, konsistensi, transformasi organisasi). Populasi penelitian ini adalah manajer dan karyawan yang bekerja pada level yang sama dengan manajer di PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk. di Witel Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, Witel Purwokerto, dan Divisi Bisnis Digital Jakarta Pusat. Alat statistik yang digunakan untuk menguji hipotesis adalah structural equation model (SEM) dengan perangkat lunak SmartPLS. Data dikumpulkan dari 96 responden yang tersebar di tiga wilayah kantor Telkom dengan metode kuesioner langsung. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hanya konsistensi tujuan BI yang tidak memiliki hubungan positif dengan strategi strategi pengumpulan data BI yang komprehensif

Diffusion of personalised services among Dutch municipalities: evolving channels of persuasion

In many European countries, municipalities are becoming increasingly important as providers of electronic public services to their citizens. One of the horizons for further expansion is the delivery of personalised electronic services. In this paper, we describe the diffusion of personalised services in the Netherlands over the period 2006-2009 and investigate how and why various municipalities adopted personalised electronic services. In achieving this, we analyse data that were gathered during interviews with key stakeholders in ten selected Dutch municipalities. We synthesise the findings in an explanatory model of personalised electronic service delivery diffusion. The model emphasizes persuasive pressures that are channelled to potential adopters of personalised services. Furthermore, the model shows how persuasive pressure (as perceived by adopters) is followed-up by organisational search activities, and how, in various circumstances, the idea of personalised services is ‘framed’ by innovation champions, knowledge brokers and new members of staff as to appeal to specific organisational priorities and ambitions. In doing so, this article contributes to an institutional view on adoption and diffusion of innovations, in which (1) horizontal and vertical channels of persuasion and (2) human agency, rather than technological opportunity and rational cost-benefit considerations, account for actual diffusion of innovations