... Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Technology Organizational performance Information exchange Relationships Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, said, “People think we got big by putting big stores in small towns. Really we got...

...., 2005), few studies have focused on scanning and processing information from upstream supply markets. George A. Zsidisin can be contacted at: gazsidisin@vcu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Integration Information exchange Suppliers With shrinking resources...

...). Power, then, provides an explanation of organisational outcomes, as it is argued that organisations seek to control each other through control of resources (Pfeffer and Salancik, 1978). Australia Supply chain Information exchange Commodities Agents Distribution of bulk commodities...

... collaboration from both supplier and customer perspectives. To measure collaboration, they employed multiple measures that assess the level of adoption of information exchange and structural collaboration practice. In the supply chain literature, the terms collaboration and integration are related and often...

... decade based on the assumed premise that closer inter‐firm relationships and enhanced information exchanges do improve the quality of decision‐making, reduce uncertainty, and consequently improve supply chain performance (Whipple and Russell, 2007). Supply chain performance is perceived to be improved...

... Information exchange Supply chain management Turkey Studies on supply chain performance can be classified under two major areas. The first category of research is about how to measure supply chain performance (e.g., Beamon, 1999 ; Gunasekaran et al., 2004 ; Lai et al., 2002...

... management Information exchange Manufacturing firms are striving for “agility” to survive in the time‐based competition (Christopher, 2000). Agility, according to its original definition, means “a continual readiness to change, sometimes to change radically” (Goldman et al., 1995...