Information technology, especially the Internet, blurs the boundaries of the firm, and thus drives the firms cooperate and compete in an unprecedented way. Firms could enjoy the producing efficiencies of the markets and the operating efficiencies of the hierarchies at the same time.

With the great opportunities and unexpected threats that the emerging information technologies generate, firms have been experiencing the change of inter-organizational relationships. This mini-track will focus on the changes of inter-organizational relationship incurred by inter-organizational systems and also primary factors, development processes, and impacts of those changes.

Transaction cost economics, trust theory, and other relevant theories were the main ground to explain about the inter-organizational relationship in the previous researches. The integrated approach is encouraged to gain comprehensive perspectives on the changes of inter-organizational relationship.

Possible Topics may include the following:

• Inter-organizational systems and changes of inter-organizational relationship
• Opportunism, control mechanism, and inter-organizational governance in the inter-organizational systems
• Trust and inter-organizational systems
• Power, dependencies and inter-organizational systems
• Inter-organizational systems and sustainable inter-organizational relationship
• Value chain reconfiguration through inter-organizational systems
• Cultural aspects on the inter-organizational systems
• Impact of inter-organizational systems on the firm performance
• Impact of the technological differences on the successful inter-organizational systems development and diffusion

JoongHo AHN
jahn@snu.ac.kr (*)
Professor of Information Systems
College of Business Administration
Seoul National University
Seoul 151-742, Korea
Phone: +82-2-880-6953
Fax: +82-2-888-4264

SangJo OH
secase@dytc.ac.kr
Assistant Professor
Department of MIS
Dongyang Technical College
Phone: +82-2-610-1874, Fax: +82-2-610-1859