Degree of boundary integration and strategic resource path affect information sharing in supply chain flexibility under relational phase

Abstract

With rapidly changing and multi-integration of current business environment, enterprises have to face the change of inter-organizational relationship phase in supply chains, and the degree of boundary integration will changed also. Considering of relation-specific assets among firms, enterprises react by different strategic resources paths. As well as the mechanism design combined with the ability of information technology (IT) integrate to increase organizational flexibility and efficiency. This competitive advantage has become one of the important issues between firms and their own supply chains. The prior literatures seldom analysis the strategic resources paths of inter-organizational relation-specific assets in supply chains under different change of relationship phases, and cause the change of inter-organizational flexibility and information sharing in supply chains. Secondly, there are little literatures consider the interaction between mechanism design and factors of transaction cost theory (TCT) cause the effect of the supply chain process efficiency under relationship phase changing. Last, in the views of the change of relationship phase and mechanism design, this study analysis inter-organizational performance of supply chains by IT integration. And we construct a structure model of supply chain inter-organizational operation flexibility and performance by relationship phase changed, mechanism design, degree of boundary integration and IT integration.