From Ideal Data Synchronization to Hybrid Forms of Interconnections: Architectures, Processes, and Data

With the emergence of new technologies, companies can organize their electronic data exchanges by implementing hybrid interorganizational information systems (IOS). This paper presents a new analytical framework by considering IOS as the product of interconnections between the parts of IS developed by connected firms to support a given interorganizational process. We focus on updating internal databases through data synchronization between a set of suppliers and a set of clients. From the literature, we built types of sending and receiving systems based on three variables; namely, shared data, structural linkages, and message interdependency. Analytically, we derived possibilities of interconnections between these sending and receiving systems with asymmetric characteristics. In a field study, we empirically investigated IOS built to support product information flows from suppliers’ to retailers’ internal, databases by considering how suppliers built their sending systems, how retailers built their receiving systems, and how their interconnections led to different forms of IOS. Interconnections occurring between systems with asymmetric characteristics show the existence of several hybrid forms of IOS, both in design and use. We finally explain that, even if companies can benefit from their use, hybrid forms are less efficient than are extreme forms, those that are the result of interconnections between systems with symmetric characteristics

Adoption Factors of Electronic Data Exchanges and Technologies to Improve Data Synchronization in BtoB Relationships: Are they similar?

Because of the emergence of technologies that allow more flexible interconnections, we propose to divide Interorganizational Information Systems (IOSs) adoption into two decision processes: electronic data exchanges adoption and technological choices. Indeed they are sequentially and in extreme case simultaneously related but independent since electronic data exchanges decision rarely imposes a technological choice. In this context, the research aims at distinguishing factors influencing the decision for a company to adopt electronic data exchanges with its partners and factors influencing the decision to adopt technologies supporting these electronic data exchanges. We investigate product information exchanges in the French consumer goods and retail industry through external catalogue, internal catalogue and Extranets. Analysis of 25 case studies allows us to conclude that it is relevant to distinguish these two decisions and the factors influencing each one

ADOPTION FACTORS OF ELECTRONIC DATA EXCHANGE AND TECHNOLOGY: CAN WE DISTINGUISH TWO PHASES?

In concordance with the emergence of technologies that allow more flexible interconnections, we propose to divide Interorganizational Information Systems (IOSs) adoption into two decision processes: electronic data exchange adoption and technological choices. These are sequentially and (in extreme cases) simultaneously related, albeit distinct, since an electronic data exchange decision rarely imposes a technological choice. In this context, the research aims at distinguishing factors influencing the decision for a company to adopt electronic data exchanges with its partners, and factors influencing the decision to adopt technologies supporting these electronic data exchanges. We investigate product information exchanges in the French consumer goods and retail industries through external catalogues, internal catalogues and Extranets. Analysis of 25 case studies allows us to conclude that it is relevant to distinguish these two decisions and the factors influencing each one

A SIMULATION FOR UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND INFORMATION QUALITY IN THE MOVE TOWARDS A GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN

This research in progress aims at investigating the role that information system (IS) and information quality (IQ) can play for the transformation of a Supply Chain. A case study was conducted to identify the supply chain evolution of a major French retailer that initiated consolidation centres for shared deliveries between several small suppliers to its warehouses. This initiative aims at developing just-in-time delivery for economic benefits and the retailer explains that this evolution meets environmental benefits through CO2 reduction. However, the promised benefits for suppliers depend upon the development of information sharing and information quality and they have the choice to adopt the ?green supply chain? or to continue delivering directly without using the consolidation centers. Therefore this paper presents the simulation of the research that is currently being performed in order to identify the necessary conditions for the benefits realization. For future research, we propose a multi-agent based modelling for understanding how IS and IQ are pushing towards the adoption of a green supply chain

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De l'intégration interne du système d'information à l'intégration du système d'information de la chaîne logistique

L'objectif de ce papier est de vérifier s'il existe une relation entre l'intégration des SI en interne et en externe. L'analyse se base sur la littérature liant intégration interne et externe et notamment sur le schéma proposé par Venkatraman présentant les phases d'évolution de l'entreprise. A partir de l'enquête COI-TIC, des indicateurs synthétiques de l'intégration des SI en interne et de l'intégration des SI de la chaîne logistique sont construits. Leurs facteurs explicatifs sont analysés sur un échantillon de 9721 entreprises. Les résultats montrent sur ce large échantillon que l'intégration interne du SI vient accroître l'intégration du SI de la supply chain. Parmi les technologies utilisées en interne, les ERP ont la plus grande influence sur l'intégration interne et constituent le meilleur prédicteur de l'intégration du SI de la chaîne logistique. Les secteurs d'activité offrent néanmoins des écarts importants entre l'intégration des SI en interne et en externe.Intégration interne ; intégration externe ; ERP ; corrélation et causalité ; variables de contingence ; chaîne logistique

Articles in French V: Perceived Value and Types of Electronic Marketplaces in the French Retail Industry : 5 Case Studies

This article examines the sustainability of vertical electronic marketplaces (EMPs) and their value to the organization and productivity of B2B exchanges. What type of value is created? How is it shared in the value chain? Based on the literature, five value dimensions are proposed: information technology (IT), competitive advantage building process, competitive game with suppliers, management of the supplier relationship, economic gains. These dimensions are illustrated by five case studies conducted with the main French retailers in 2005. The article finally discusses the nature of EMPs (private or built in consortium) with transaction cost and resource-based view theoretical backgrounds

C3PO: a Spontaneous and Ephemeral Social Networking Framework for a collaborative Creation and Publishing of Multimedia Contents

International audienceOnline social networks have been adopted by a large part of the population, and have become in few years essential communication means and a source of information for journalists. Nevertheless, these networks have some drawbacks that make people reluctant to use them, such as the impossibility to claim for ownership of data and to avoid commercial analysis of them, or the absence of collaborative tools to produce multimedia contents with a real editorial value. In this paper, we present a new kind of social networks, namely spontaneous and ephemeral social networks (SESNs). SESNs allow people to collaborate spontaneously in the production of multimedia documents so as to cover cultural and sport events