| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 資訊管理研究所 === 95 === Organizations have gradually switched large-scale vertical integration into vertical virtual integration as a result of globalization and outsourcing. Facing varying customers’ changing demands and shorter product life cycle, a company can focus on its core domain to reduce the risk and enhance its core advantage, in collaboration with its supply chain partners. As such, the importance of trading with upstream or downstream partners becomes critical to its competitiveness. SCM partners may enjoy excellent SCM performance and long-term cooperative relationship through close collaboration and information sharing.
Organizations obtain sustained competitive advantage by lowing costs, having competitive resource and capability for the sake of its profit and growth. Moreover, IT capability can be regarded as the ability of a company and a necessary condition in supply chain collaboration. In addition, business-process specificity can be regarded as the source for a good collaborative relationship. These can support the information flow and enhance supply chain visibility to improve collaborations among upstream and downstream partners. Under this background, this study attempts to look into how partner’s power and knowledge-based trust affect the desire and extent towards working together.
A self administered research was conducted. Samples in this study were the top 1000 companies in manufacturing in Taiwan. Sales executives in these companies were invited as the respondents. Empirical results reveal that: (1) both organizations’ IT capability and organizations’ business-process specificity positively affect inter-organizational information sharing; (2) information sharing between an organization and its partners positively affects operational benefits; (3) information sharing between a organization and its partners positively affects strategic benefits; (4) the relationship between partner’s power and business-process specificity is moderated by the ability of IT; (5) the relationship between organizations’ business-process specificity and inter-organizational information sharing is moderated by organizations’ knowledge-based trust towards their partners.
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