Determinants of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Adoption and Integration in the US and Japanese Automobile Suppliers

Sam Kurokawa and Seiji Manabe
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Sam Kurokawa: Department of Management, Bennett S. LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, USA
Seiji Manabe: Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University, Japan

No 129, Discussion Paper Series from Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University

Abstract: This paper examines determinants of EDI adoption and integration in the US and Japanese automobile suppliers. The paper constructs several hypotheses based on the transaction-cost and resource- dependence approaches, and tests these hypotheses by using data from the automobile suppliers. Our study shows: (1) the resource-dependence approach seemed more effective in explaining EDI adoption, while the transaction-cost approach seemed more effective in explaining EDI integration; (2) the transaction-cost approach seemed more suited to the US context, while the resource-dependence approach seemed more suited to the Japanese context; (3) EDI adoption and EDI integration had positive impacts on EDI performance in the US, suggesting the higher validity of our framework in the US.

Keywords: Electronic Data Interchange (EDI); Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce; Automotive Industry; Automobile Suppliers; Technology Adoption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2002-09
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