Technological Embeddedness of Inter-organizational Collaboration Processes

Abstract Advanced information technologies, and particularly big data, provide new affordances to facilitate inter-organizational collaboration. Rich flows of real-time data provide transparency across organizational boundaries and enable greater automation of inter-organizational routines. Taking s...

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Published in:Managing Inter-Organizational Collaborations Vol. 64; pp. 91 - 115
Main Authors: Cepa, Katharina, Schildt, Henri
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: United Kingdom Emerald Publishing Limited 01.01.2019
Subjects:
inter-organizational collaboration
embeddedness
transparency
digital strategy
adaptation
Big data
digitalization
digital transformation
ISBN:1787565920, 9781787565920
ISSN:0733-558X
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Summary:Abstract Advanced information technologies, and particularly big data, provide new affordances to facilitate inter-organizational collaboration. Rich flows of real-time data provide transparency across organizational boundaries and enable greater automation of inter-organizational routines. Taking stock of the literature and building on observations from the research in an industrial setting, the authors introduce the concept of technological embeddedness as an important characteristic of inter-organizational relationships, denoting the degree of monitoring, control, and optimization of intra- and inter-organizational tasks accomplished through technology at the interface of the inter-organizational relationship. The authors theorize how increasing technological embeddedness created by big data technologies affects the development of inter-organizational trust, mutual adaptation, and temporal structuring of collaboration. The propositions elaborate how greater technological embeddedness enables collaboration, and warn about the potential limiting effects of technological embeddedness on the development of interpersonal trust, strategic learning, and long-term orientation.
ISBN:1787565920
9781787565920
ISSN:0733-558X
DOI:10.1108/S0733-558X20190000064007