Examines the importance of congruence between trading partners, along several dimensions, for the successful implementation of EDI networks. The results of a survey of 64 dyads, drawn from US manufacturing firms and their suppliers, are reported, which suggest that congruence is not a critical...

This paper shows that the tests of skewness persistence considered by Muralidhar (Muralidhar, K. 1993. The bootstrap approach for testing skewness persistence. Management Sci. 39 487--491.) far exceed the true Type I error. That is, the probabilities of detecting an increase (decrease) in...

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is a critical technology used in supply chain management systems involving logistics functions. This study explores the construct of “level of EDI implementation” in order to establish its relationship with system success and the criticality of selected...