Impact of Resource Dependence, Trust and Relationship Commitment among Supply Chain partners on Information System Alignment

摘要

The theoretical model of relationship among resource dependence, trust, relationship commitment and information system alignment in a supply chain is proposed and empirically tested using data collected from 141 manufacturing companies in Pearl River Delta. The results show that resource dependence has significant positive impact on trust and relationship commitment, but does not impact information system alignment significantly. Moreover, the results also show that trust among supply chain partners has significant positive impact on relationship commitment and information system alignment. However, relationship commitment has no significant positive impact on information system alignment. These findings can also give some guidelines to managers.