Article ID: | iaor1997488 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 84 |
End Page Number: | 91 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1996 |
Journal: | European Journal of Information Systems |
Authors: | Venkatraman N., Bensaou M. |
Keywords: | computers: information |
Inter-organizational strategies that leverage information technology capabilities are becoming more wide-spread but the degree of research attention is limited. This paper integrates theoretical concepts from transaction cost economics, organization theory and political economy to develop a conceptual framework to understand inter-organizational relationships, particularly those that explicitly leverage information technology capabilities. Further, it develops research directions and approaches to bridge the requirements of theory building and theory testing.