Measurements, feedback and empowerment: Critical systems theory as a basis for software process improvement
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Despite business-to-government (B2G) electronic auction (e-auction) markets being a way for\nsuppliers to create opportunities for market expansion and for trading activities, little has been done\nto understand the behaviour of suppliers participating in these markets. In this paper, we propose a\nframework to explain suppliers’ intention to participate, and the level of participation in B2G eauction markets, which will be tested in the Thai B2G e-auction markets. Low supplier participation\nhas been a major problem in the Thai e-auction markets. We posit that suppliers’ participation\ndepends on organisational motivation, environmental uncertainty, and their capabilities. The\nconceptual framework draws from the Motivation-Ability Framework, Transaction Cost Theory,\nInstitutional Theory, and Resource-Based Theory. It proposes that four key constructs - efficiency\nmotive, legitimacy motive, environmental uncertainty, and organisational capabilities influence\nsuppliers’ intention to participate as well as their participation level in B2G e-auction markets. The\nconceptual framework is developed by drawing on our understanding of the Thai electronic auction\nmarket as well as from extensive literature. We believe this framework may be useful to better\nunderstand the key reasons for suppliers to participate in B2G e-auction markets.
Language: English
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1558836065