Researchers and practitioners regard information technology (IT) as a competitive tool.
However, current knowledge on IT capability mechanisms that affect firm performance …

This article is an in-depth case study examining a foreign firm deploying Cross-border E-
commerce as an entry mode to the Chinese market, integrating services provided by a major …

Agility is a major preoccupation for both supply chain managers and academic researchers
in supply chain management. Yet, many questions remain unanswered about how best to …

Although sharing is not a new subject, sharing behavior enabled by peer-to-peer software
technologies is a recent phenomenon. Studies have explored the impact of the sharing …

In the context of the rapid development of global Internet and e-commerce, rural e-
commerce entrepreneurship has become an important driving force for rural e-commerce …

Purpose The basic concept of transaction cost theory is that firms like to conduct transactions
in a channel with lower transaction costs. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to use the …

Purpose This paper aims to explain how contractual complexity, including contractual
control, coordination and adaptation, makes a difference to the task and relationship conflict …

This study (1) distinguishes between the effects on direct distribution of two distinctive
dimensions of asset specificity (human asset specificity and physical asset specificity);(2) …

Making asset specific investments without sufficient economic safeguards is usually seen as
a poor managerial practice according to transaction cost economics. However, in practice …

As much as 94% of all sales effort results in outcomes that can be perceived as denoting
failure. This article presents findings from a systematic review of literature which identifies …