"Electronic Procurement networks and Parts Transaction Systems: A Case of the Automobile Industry"(in Japanese)

Je-Wheon Oh and Takahiro Fujimoto
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Je-Wheon Oh: Department of Economics, University of Tokyo
Takahiro Fujimoto: Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

No CIRJE-J-44, CIRJE J-Series from CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

Abstract: Inter-firm information systems in the automobile industry have evolved from firm-specific networks to industrial standard networks and further to internet. This paper examines how electronic parts procurement systems in the automobile industry affected its patterns of inter-firm transactions through empirical studies on information networks, transaction systems, and architectural characteristics of automobile parts. We argue that choice of a certain parts transaction system tends to affect choice of the mode of information system that might best fit the transaction information between the firms. Conversely, once a particular type of information is chosen, the mode of information exchanges, patterns of competitions between suppliers and transaction systems would also be changed. In this way, inter-firm information systems, transaction patterns, and architectures of the pars co-evolve through dynamic interactions among them.

Pages: 52 pages
Date: 2001-02
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