| Article ID: | iaor20072167 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 42 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 251 |
| End Page Number: | 266 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2006 |
| Journal: | Decision Support Systems |
| Authors: | Shaw Michael J., Sikora Riyaz, Li Jingquan, Tan Gek Woo |
| Keywords: | organization, supply & supply chains, e-commerce |
In this paper we study the effect of inter organizational information sharing strategies on firm level performance under both stable as well as volatile market conditions. We use information exchange in a supply chain as a representation of inter organizational information sharing, and study five strategies for information sharing that range from minimal to near-complete information exchange. We present analytical evaluation of the relative performance of these strategies and experimental results from a proof-of-concept system. Our results show that near-complete information sharing that combines more than one type of information being shared has better performance in volatile market conditions.