Title:
Small Inter-firm Cooperation: Aligning Social Information Exchange
Abstract: In addition to research of alignment that seek to explain
how information technology can support intra-firm performance by aligning
business strategy with IT strategy, so called social alignment is reciveing
more and more attention. Cooperation between firms is more than adoption
to different technologies and day to day transactions are virtually always
a result of social exchanges between different stakeholders, often managers’.
Therefore, this research concentrate on the actual content of information
and how it is shared in social exchanges between small firms. The research
conducted in this paper explores differences in information exchange content
in three different dyadic small firm relationships. The purpose with the
research is to extend the “knowledge base” of alignment by focusing on the
social information exchange dimension between small firms.
Author: Dan Harnesk