The Effects of Top Management Support, IS Expertise, Capability, and Resources Allocation on B2B E-Commerce Benefits in Taiwanese Hospitals

Despite high expectations for the value of business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce (e-commerce) in hospitals, its adoption remains poorly understood. Effective utilization of B2B e-commerce in hospitals may lead to many benefits such as increased accessibility to pharmaceutical and medical pr...

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Main Authors: Lin, Chad, Huang, Y., Liu, Y., Jalleh, Geoffrey
Other Authors: Chien-Chang Chen (Chair)
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6286
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author Lin, Chad
Huang, Y.
Liu, Y.
Jalleh, Geoffrey
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Lin, Chad
Huang, Y.
Liu, Y.
Jalleh, Geoffrey
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description Despite high expectations for the value of business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce (e-commerce) in hospitals, its adoption remains poorly understood. Effective utilization of B2B e-commerce in hospitals may lead to many benefits such as increased accessibility to pharmaceutical and medical products, improved process efficiency, enhanced quality of healthcare services, decreased scheduling conflicts, and reduction in healthcare costs. However, many hospitals have discovered that they have not yet fully reaped the expected benefits from their B2B e-commerce investments. Drawing on the social-technical systems (STS) perspective, the main objective of this paper is to examine the relationships between top management support, IS expertise, IS resource allocation, and IS capability as well as their impact on the realization of B2B e-commerce benefits. A key contribution of this paper is the development of a research framework to examine the factors affecting the realization of B2B e-commerce implementation for Taiwanese hospitals. The results will guide hospital executives to develop their own approaches or strategies to manage and evaluate the various organizational factors which exist in Taiwanese hospitals.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-62862017-01-30T10:51:57Z The Effects of Top Management Support, IS Expertise, Capability, and Resources Allocation on B2B E-Commerce Benefits in Taiwanese Hospitals Lin, Chad Huang, Y. Liu, Y. Jalleh, Geoffrey Chien-Chang Chen (Chair) Despite high expectations for the value of business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce (e-commerce) in hospitals, its adoption remains poorly understood. Effective utilization of B2B e-commerce in hospitals may lead to many benefits such as increased accessibility to pharmaceutical and medical products, improved process efficiency, enhanced quality of healthcare services, decreased scheduling conflicts, and reduction in healthcare costs. However, many hospitals have discovered that they have not yet fully reaped the expected benefits from their B2B e-commerce investments. Drawing on the social-technical systems (STS) perspective, the main objective of this paper is to examine the relationships between top management support, IS expertise, IS resource allocation, and IS capability as well as their impact on the realization of B2B e-commerce benefits. A key contribution of this paper is the development of a research framework to examine the factors affecting the realization of B2B e-commerce implementation for Taiwanese hospitals. The results will guide hospital executives to develop their own approaches or strategies to manage and evaluate the various organizational factors which exist in Taiwanese hospitals. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6286 Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research restricted
spellingShingle Lin, Chad
Huang, Y.
Liu, Y.
Jalleh, Geoffrey
The Effects of Top Management Support, IS Expertise, Capability, and Resources Allocation on B2B E-Commerce Benefits in Taiwanese Hospitals
title The Effects of Top Management Support, IS Expertise, Capability, and Resources Allocation on B2B E-Commerce Benefits in Taiwanese Hospitals
title_full The Effects of Top Management Support, IS Expertise, Capability, and Resources Allocation on B2B E-Commerce Benefits in Taiwanese Hospitals
title_fullStr The Effects of Top Management Support, IS Expertise, Capability, and Resources Allocation on B2B E-Commerce Benefits in Taiwanese Hospitals
title_full_unstemmed The Effects of Top Management Support, IS Expertise, Capability, and Resources Allocation on B2B E-Commerce Benefits in Taiwanese Hospitals
title_short The Effects of Top Management Support, IS Expertise, Capability, and Resources Allocation on B2B E-Commerce Benefits in Taiwanese Hospitals
title_sort effects of top management support, is expertise, capability, and resources allocation on b2b e-commerce benefits in taiwanese hospitals
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6286