Abstract
Article history: Received July 5, 2011 Received in Revised form October, 12, 2011 Accepted 18 December 2011 Available online 2 January 2012 Information technology plays an important role in increasing organizational cooperation both inside an organization and among different firms. In fact, may organizations have shared information though the recent advances of information technology and they have been able to increase the performance of their organizations, significantly. In this paper, we present an empirical study to investigate the relationship between e-business and intra and extra organizational cooperation. The results indicate that e-business directly increase intra organizational performance, indirectly increase organizational cooperation. Extra organizational performance directly increase organization performance, inside cooperation also indirectly influence inside cooperation through extra organization cooperation. © 2012 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Highlights
During the past two decades, the advances on information technology (IT) have changed e-business, substantially (Bailey & Rabinovich, 2001; Takeishi, 2002). Prahinski and Benton (2004) report IT could improve communications inside and outside the organizations and it could improve the performance of the firms
We present an empirical study to investigate the relationship between e-business and intra and extra organizational cooperation
Extra organizational performance directly increase organization performance, inside cooperation indirectly influence inside cooperation through extra organization cooperation
Summary
During the past two decades, the advances on information technology (IT) have changed e-business, substantially (Bailey & Rabinovich, 2001; Takeishi, 2002). Prahinski and Benton (2004) report IT could improve communications inside and outside the organizations and it could improve the performance of the firms. The finding could be translated into the important role of a firm's application capability of e-business on e-business success They discovered that IT-enabled collaborative advantage maintains relatively more significant and greater impact on organizational performance. The results indicated that Internet-based technologies played important role on innovation in the year 2003 and the results indicated that all studied types of innovation, including Internet-enabled and non-Internet-enabled product or process innovations, were positively correlated with turnover and employment growth. They reported that companies, which rely on Internet-enabled innovations will more likely to grow as firms depending on non-Internet-enabled innovations.
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