An Empirical Study of eBusiness Strategic Alliance and Firm Performance:The Mediating and Spillover Effect of E-collaboration Capabilities

Abstract

Abstract:

Over recent years, IT strategic alliance has been widely paid attention by business executives and IT managers. Since the existing studies ignore the intermediary factors and the subdivision of financial indexes, this results in inconsistent conclusions of whether and how IT strategic alliance affects firm performance. Based on IT strategic alliance, resource-based view, socio-technical systems theory, spillover effects and e-commerce business practices, this paper builds a model of the relationship among EB strategic alliance, e-collaboration, and firm performance. We adopt PLS 2.0 to analyze 80 firms' survey data and financial data and validate the model. Our findings show that (1)EB strategic alliance has no direct effect on business performance, and indirectly affects firm performance through e-collaboration;(2)e-collaboration capabilities (including e-procurement and e-selling capabilities) is the mediator between EB strategic alliance and firm performance (e.g. ROA and IN/A); (3) e-procurement capability has a spillover effect on e-selling capability. This paper extends prior studies on IT alliance, and provides theoretic basis for researchers and managers to explore the value creation process of EB strategic alliance.

Key words: eBusiness strategic alliance, e-ordering capability, e-selling capability, firm performance, mediation effect

Chi Maomao, Zhao Jing, Li Yanhui, Wang Fei. An Empirical Study of eBusiness Strategic Alliance and Firm Performance:The Mediating and Spillover Effect of E-collaboration Capabilities[J]. , 2017, 29(9): 229-238.

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