TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing the business values of e-commerce and information technology separately and jointly and their impacts upon US firms' performance as measured by productive efficiency
AU - Lin, Winston T.
AU - Chen, Yueh H.
AU - Chou, Chia Ching
N1 - Funding Information:
The valuable comments and suggestions from two anonymous referees of this journal are greatly appreciated. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Joint Weekly Doctoral Seminars of the Departments of Operations Management and Strategy and Management Science and Systems in the School Management at The State University of New York at Buffalo, the Annual Meeting of the Production and Operations Management Society, and the International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Applied Science (ICETA) in Taipei, Taiwan. The authors thank the participants of the Weekly Seminars and the conferences for their helpful comments and suggestions. Funding: The authors gratefully acknowledge that this work was supported by the faculty fellowships granted by the Faculty Research Committee in the School of Management, The State University of New York at Buffalo, for a two-year period; and by the College of Management at National Sun Yat-sen University.
Funding Information:
The valuable comments and suggestions from two anonymous referees of this journal are greatly appreciated. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Joint Weekly Doctoral Seminars of the Departments of Operations Management and Strategy and Management Science and Systems in the School Management at The State University of New York at Buffalo, the Annual Meeting of the Production and Operations Management Society, and the International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Applied Science (ICETA) in Taipei, Taiwan. The authors thank the participants of the Weekly Seminars and the conferences for their helpful comments and suggestions. Funding: The authors gratefully acknowledge that this work was supported by the faculty fellowships granted by the Faculty Research Committee in the School of Management , The State University of New York at Buffalo, for a two-year period; and by the College of Management at National Sun Yat-sen University .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - The business values of information technology (IT) and electronic commerce (EC) have been discussed for years, yet virtually all previous studies have evaluated the values of IT and EC independently, instead of jointly; and ignored their impacts on the firm's performance and inputs relationships. This pioneering firm-level study bridges the gap by empirically investigating the complex relationships among IT and EC investments, relationships of inputs, and US firms' performance at the firm, industry, and sector levels, based on a panel dataset. We undertake a detailed analysis of the empirical results, seek to answer five major research questions, and discuss managerial and strategic implications.
AB - The business values of information technology (IT) and electronic commerce (EC) have been discussed for years, yet virtually all previous studies have evaluated the values of IT and EC independently, instead of jointly; and ignored their impacts on the firm's performance and inputs relationships. This pioneering firm-level study bridges the gap by empirically investigating the complex relationships among IT and EC investments, relationships of inputs, and US firms' performance at the firm, industry, and sector levels, based on a panel dataset. We undertake a detailed analysis of the empirical results, seek to answer five major research questions, and discuss managerial and strategic implications.
KW - Complementarity and substitutability
KW - Constant elasticity of substitution
KW - Electronic commerce
KW - Information technology
KW - Theory of production
KW - Time-varying stochastic production frontier approaches
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108269
DO - 10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108269
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85113396101
SN - 0925-5273
VL - 241
JO - International Journal of Production Economics
JF - International Journal of Production Economics
M1 - 108269
ER -