Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Collaborative Advantage and the Extended Enterprise -- 1 Creating Partnerships for Collaborative Advantage -- 2 Creating Dedicated Assets in the Extended Enterprise -- 3 Effective Knowledge Management in the Extended Enterprise --...

By combining the theoretical lenses of social embeddedness, agency problem, and inter-firm relationship formation, this study investigates the impact of focal firms' inter-firm managerial social ties (IMST) on the firms' selection of IT suppliers and the consequences of such IT supplier...

Whereas small and medium enterprises can answer the different business challenges through cooperation within collaborative networked organisations (CNOs), human aspects constitute a fundamental issue in these networks since it is neither organisations nor information systems but people that...