Understanding the Diversity of Interconnections Between IS: Towards a New Typology of IOS

Frantz Rowe Université de Nantes, France

François de Corbière École des Mines de Nantes, France

Abstract
Electronic exchanges of information between Businesses have continued to grow over recent decades. Though the emergence of new technologies, firms are facing new opportunities to build Interorganizational Information Systems (IOSs) to organize their electronic exchanges of data to update their own information systems. In this paper, we focus on flows from suppliers to retailers of product information, a set of data that describe the product manufactured by suppliers and retailed by wholesalers to the end consumer. We propose a new theoretical framework to analyze IOSs, by considering how suppliers build their sending systems, how retailers build their receiving systems and how their interconnections lead to the creation of IOSs. Through a qualitative research based on interviews and documentation reviews, we describe and discuss the possibilities of interconnections between sending and receiving systems based on data privacy, structural linkages and the nature of flows.

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Reference:	Rowe, F., Corbière, F. (2009). "Understanding the Diversity of Interconnections Between IS: Towards a New Typology of IOS," Proceedings > Proceedings of JAIS Theory Development Workshop . Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems, 9(60). http://sprouts.aisnet.org/9-60
Keywords:	Interorganizational Information Systems, typology, sending systems, receiving systems, interconnection, Structural linkages, Data privacy, Nature of flows, Product information management.
Item Type:	Article - Volume 9 Article 60 (2009)
Language:	English
Email:	Frantz Rowe (frantz.rowe@univ-nantes.fr) François de Corbière (francois.de-corbiere@emn.fr)

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