Strategic Orientation towards Information Sharing in Supply Chain Management

摘要

This research explores the role of information sharing strategy (ISS) in supply chain. It tends to understand how ISS influences the supply chain uncertainty and performance through sharing information between chain members. A research model was proposed based on the reviews of literature, which contains trust and commitment as complementary antecedents of ISS. A survey study was carried out in Taiwan’s manufacturing industry to test the model. Results indicate that ISS includes the process and content aspects of information sharing. In terms of the process, it is clear that a supply chain partner must rely on adjustment mutuality and formalized trading and payment processes to cope with demands from its supply chain partners. As for the content dimension, a supply chain partner must share high-quality information to assist its supply chain partners’ decision-making when conducting the information sharing. Except these findings, some valuable implications and future research are also presented.