Structural equation model analysis of information systems in cooperative organizations: focusing the role of cooperative experience and information process mechanism

摘要

Cooperation in competitive environment is a vital way for an organization to enhance learning and competence. Information process mechanism is a key element of information systems in cooperative for achieving cooperative goals, and cooperative experience serves as an important variable to promote information process and learning ability in a cooperative organization. By using a big survey dataset from Chinese enterprises, this study explores the relationship between cooperative experience and cooperative performance. Based on an analysis using a structural equation model, this study found that information process mechanism plays the role of a complete mediation in the relationship between cooperative experience and performance. This means that cooperative experiences depend on the information mechanism within the cooperation to improve internal and external performances and realize desired cooperative objectives. Furthermore, it was found that the key information process mechanism has an obvious four-stage, including information acquisition, information encoding, information sharing, and information internalization.