Factors influencing the information sharing arrangements

Abstract

Companies that establish relationships with other organizations, submerge in a process of decision making in terms of the agreements related to information sharing that should be held between them and their allies, customers or providers. The involved organizations, in the information sharing arrangements, have to make a determination toward the type of system to be used to exchange information, and the governance of the systems to structure its management mechanisms. There is a comprehensive literature regarding the adoption of inter-organizational organization systems (IOS) including areas like factors that affect their implementation, benefits for the organizations that use them and the different existing types of IOS. There is also broad literature about information technology (IT) governance. Nevertheless, there is a lack of research debate concerning the factors that affect both, the implementation of information exchange systems and the IT governance of such systems.
This study aims to close the aforementioned gap by bringing an explanation about which factors influence the implementation of either a dyadic or a multilateral typology of information exchange system, used among companies, and the IT governance design whether it is centralized, federal or decentralized of such information system IS. Specifically, this research is addressed as an empirical study on how internal and external factors motivate companies to follow an information sharing arrangement which is formed by the typology and the IT governance of the information exchange system. The scope of this research is narrowed to the information sharing arrangements between private companies and their banking allies in Colombia, since the private companies in the South American country are the selected population; the central research question of this research is: Which factors influence the information sharing arrangements between private organizations and their banking allies?...