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Copyright: 2015
Pages: 16
Source title: Information Acquisitions and Sharing through Inter-Organizational Collaboration: Impacts of Business Performance in China
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Wu Lu (Zhejiang University City College, China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8527-7.ch001

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Global Business / Knowledge Management / Library & Information Science

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The explosion of the Internet and other telecommunication technology facilitates the interaction between trading partners using wireless communications. E-collaboration considerably facilitates inter-organisational sharing of knowledge and information and subsequently improves business performance. The level of wireless technology used to manage commercial transactions between partners is regarded as the ‘e-commerce diffusion'. Effective information sharing among trading partners heavily depends on trust outside organization and organisational capacity inside organization, which form two critical factors to successful inter-organisational collaboration. The research question cannot be answered without thorough investigation of the impact of e-collaboration and e-commerce diffusion on business performance as practiced by industry. The survey was addressed to CEOs and senior managers from 500 organisations in China manufacturing electrical products. This chapter give an overview of the key definitions, research questions, research methodology, research significance and limitations of scope of the book.

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