Abstract
Firms are turning toward e-business technologies to increase efficiency and effectiveness and, thereby, acquire competitive advantage. We focus on interfirm distribution networks (IDNs) connected by extranets. Our thesis is that IDNs behave like alliances. As such, the network leader in the IDN may have an organizational capability related to developing and managing IDNs. This extranet capability is posited to positively influence three relationship capital resources (trust, information exchange, and communication quality), which, in turn, influence positively five network performance outputs (responsiveness, financial performance, efficiency, effectiveness, and innovativeness). Based on data from 175 new car sales managers, empirical tests of the hypotheses provide support for the posited explanation of IDN performance.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 59-74 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of Retailing |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2011 |
Keywords
- E-integration
- Extranets
- Information technology use
- Interfirm distribution networks
- Interorganizational systems
- Private industrial networks
- Relationship capital resources
- Supply chain integration