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In this paper, we propose a new framework for the organization of the electric power industry, based on extensive use of information technology (IT) and on interactive decision making, where consumers and distributed producers join the traditional actors, utilities in particular, in making decisions. While many ideas considered in this paper have been put forward in recent years, such as the need...
In order to develop an extensive E-business Capability (EBC) model for better examining how e-business technology creates business value, this paper draws on the resource-based view of the firm, the IT process-oriented perspective, the net-enabled business innovation theory, and complementarity of resource, to review previous literature on EBC research and design an extensive framework. The research...
Logistics Finance is currently a new thing in china, which can promote capital flows during logistics finance business processes, it uses various financial products and services in the supply chain, and then improves efficiency of fund in supply chain. Logistics and finance combine into an innovative service, that is logistics finance which mission uses service, knowledge of supply chain and information...
This paper is based on Nonaka's knowledge evolution and innovation SECI model, combining with other scholars' knowledge evolution model in supply chain. The authors think the knowledge evolution has three dimensions. Moreover, different from the one-way logistic and financial flow in traditional supply chain enterprises, knowledge flow is bi-directional. And according it, the bi-directional knowledge...
Information technology (IT) plays an important role for the enterprises to create competitive advantage, which has been proved, but many Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) still feel that it is a challenge to succeed in converting IT investments into business value. Haier Group is the leading brand of white goods globally and the most valuable brand in China. Relative Haier Group, Linkage is a SMEs...
In order to get a comprehensive management in nowadays information technology era, supply chain management and e-commerce are effective ways. Enterprises are pushed into a global competition based on Internet with the boom of information technology, and e-business has been the main platform of businesses. Efficient and effective e-business transformation has been one of the key factors that enterprises...
Cluster supply chain is a new economic theory for SMEs to improve each other's capabilities and face with global challenges through all kinds of collaborative strategies. However, it is still an open problem on how to bridge the gap between business theories and IT realization. The paper proposes a modeling framework to depict cluster supply chain from three views (business models, specification models,...
With the rapid advance of information technology, supply chains evolved from clusters of connected companies to a virtual e-marketplace that serves as a central hub for many companies that buy and sell. Over this large community of companies supply chains can be dynamically formed by mediator agents. From the view of an ecosystem, the companies that are connected in the e-marketplace can be viewed...
We investigate how private electronic markets can be used as a strategic tool by a large producer to compete with a consortium of smaller producers. We model the competition between a large producer and consortium of producers in a two-tier supply chain as a game and characterize the resulting sub-game perfect Nash equilibrium. Our results demonstrate that as the private electronic market is established,...
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