Collaborative Research: Interorganizational Information System Integration Through Industry-wide Standardization: Technical Design Choices and Collective Action Dilemmas

协作研究：通过全行业标准化实现组织间信息系统集成：技术设计选择和集体行动困境

• 批准号: 0704978
• 负责人: Rolf Wigand
• 金额: $ 29.79万
• 依托单位: University of Arkansas Little Rock
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0704978&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Interorganizational; Information; System

One way industries harmonize the actions of individual organizations is via formal agreements on process and specification standards. Little is known about the mechanisms that drive this critical coordination so foundational to our national economic competitiveness. New information architecture technologies (e.g., XML) are rapidly replacing decades-old, stable formats (e.g., EDI), transforming the standards process in unforeseen ways. This proposal empirically examines the development, adoption, implementation, and diffusion of industry-wide vertical information systems standards in three diverse industries: automotive, retailing, and mortgage finance. As standards diffusion is a complex interaction between independent organization-level action and collective industry-level action, the three case studies are grounded by data collection with a sample of 60 companies from each industry, which enables comparisons of relative success of a standard's adoption and use as well as its consequences. This is a unique multi-level approach, investigating the impact of collective action dynamics on specific IT design features. Broader impacts: Improved electronic interorganizational collaboration has enormous potential to reduce transaction costs and develop more competitive industries. Such benefits can lead to lower prices for consumers. Moreover, the greater use of open Internet standards promises new opportunities for smaller organizations that were not able to enjoy the full benefits of earlier EDI approaches. The research will also produce materials for the education of practitioners and will advance the state of knowledge in several fields, including information systems and technology, management, industrial engineering, economics, sociology, and social informatics.

行业协调各个组织行为的一种方式是通过关于流程和规范标准的正式协议。对于推动这种对我们国家经济竞争力如此重要的关键协调的机制知之甚少。新的信息架构技术（例如 XML）正在迅速取代已有数十年历史的稳定格式（例如 EDI），以不可预见的方式改变标准流程。该提案实证检验了汽车、零售和抵押贷款金融三个不同行业中全行业垂直信息系统标准的开发、采用、实施和传播。由于标准传播是独立组织级行动和集体行业级行动之间的复杂互动，因此这三个案例研究以每个行业 60 家公司为样本的数据收集为基础，从而可以比较标准采用和标准的相对成功程度。使用及其后果。这是一种独特的多层次方法，研究集体行动动态对特定 IT 设计功能的影响。更广泛的影响：改进的电子组织间协作具有降低交易成本和发展更具竞争力的行业的巨大潜力。这些好处可以为消费者带来更低的价格。此外，开放互联网标准的更多使用为无法充分享受早期 EDI 方法优势的小型组织带来了新的机遇。该研究还将为从业者的教育提供材料，并将提高多个领域的知识水平，包括信息系统和技术、管理、工业工程、经济学、社会学和社会信息学。