Nainika Seth

TL;DR: The results suggest that integrated IT infrastructures enable firms to develop the higher-order capability of supply chain process integration, which results in significant and sustained firm performance gains, especially in operational excellence and revenue growth.

TL;DR: The results suggest that tangible and intangible resources invested in supply chain relationships enable the integration of information flows with supply chain partners, and formal and informal interaction routines that take time and effort to develop enable integration of informational flows across a firm's supply chain.

TL;DR: This paper draws upon outsourcing literature to understand the factors that are likely to influence the adoption of the ASP model and an initial research model is developed based on factors identified from economic and social perspectives used in outsourcing literature.

Abstract: Online personals have been a remarkably successful in the Western World and have been emulated in other cultural contexts. The introduction of the Internet can have vastly different implications on traditional societies and practices such as arranged marriages in India. This chapter seeks to investigate using an ethnographic approach the role of matrimonial Web sites in the process of arranging marriages in India. It seeks to explore how these Web sites have been appropriated by key stakeholders in arranging marriage and how such appropriation is changing the process and traditions associated with arranged marriage. The key contributions of this study are in that it is an investigation of complex social processes in a societal context different from traditional western research contexts and an exploration of how modern technologies confront societal traditions and long standing ways of doing things. Our investigation suggests that the use of matrimonial Web sites have implications for family disintermediation, cultural convergence, continuous information flows, ease of disengagement, virtual dating and reduced stigma in arranged marriages in India.

TL;DR: It is asserted that both IT and relational capabilities constitute the social capital available to firms in the supply network and drawn upon Nahapiet and Ghosal's (1998) work to identify the specific facets structural, relational and cognitive social capital that are relevant in the context of supply chain integration.