Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: This paper tries to analyze IT impacts on firm boundaries and their strategic implications. The existing literature has focused on application of transaction cost theory to analyze the IT impacts.These analyses have lead to some misleading conclusions and equivocal managerial implications.This paper first gives an overview of the literature and points out some weaknesses in the existing literature.Then the paper develops an integrated framework for firm boundary analysis using widely agreed-on research in industrial organization.By identifying the role of IT over such an integrated framework, we can get a more complete and dynamic picture of IT impacts on firm from several case studies.This paper contributes to the area of research in impacts and strategy of information technology.And there could be a series of research starting from here.
Author: Jianfeng Wang
Institution: University of Mississippi
Language: English
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W763199017