• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.25-43
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• 2001

The evolution of EDI has opened the flexible and efficient way for business to conduct a greater portion of the routine buyer-seller business activities online. This study focuses on the role of factors that change the innovation characteristics for implementation success of EDI. Three factors promotional efforts, proactive implementation strategy, and provision of technical expertise are proposed to affect EDI implementation success, as these factors directly influence three general and most important attributes of innovation relative advantage, compatibility, and complexity respectively. Hypotheses indicate that promotional efforts, proactive implementation strategy, and provision of technical expertise directly affect EDI implementation success that is represented by three variables volume, depth, and diversity. A structural equation modeling approach(LISREL) is used to analyze data from EDI adopters. The results show that proactive implementation strategy and provision of technical expertise positively affect implementation success of EDI. Given the significant impact of the wide spread use of the EDI system, this study offers quite useful insights on the factors facilitating innovation characteristics under which EDI can be successfully diffused in organizations.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.103-128
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• 2001

At present, the EDI systems are indispensable software in port logistics industry. Currently, a monopolistic VAN/EDI service provider operates the EDI services. The current EDI client software has the 2-tier fat client/server architecture. However, the current EDI software is lack of Web interface and causes lots of cost for maintenance. Therefore, a variety of implementation architecture has been being tried by using script, XML and distributed object-oriented technology. Web/EDI and XML/EDI are the new EDI systems, However, the EDI systems have some limitations such as speed. This study intends to compare the variety implementation architecture for the EDI systems in the users' perspective and explore the strong and weak points of each architecture. We compared the EDI systems based on our experience of more than 2-years of implementation project for the EDI systems of port logistics. We categorized the EDI systems as client application EDI, Web EDI using script, XML/EDI, and 3-tier distributed object-oriented EDI system. We compared them with criteria such as speed, program maintenance, easiness of implementation and usage, security, and load balancing and fail-over. Finally we discuss the direction of optimal EDI system architecture for the future.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.257-274
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• 2005

The implementation of Internet based on EDI has become a major issue because of the huge development of the internet. Internet EDI is a technology which combines the strength of EDI and Internet technologies and it can be classified in FTP-EDI, SMTP/MINE EDI, and Web EDI. Recently, the number of companies which are adopted Web EDI increase to overcome shortcomings of high communication costs and high foundation and maintenance expenses of VAN EDI. This research is intended to examine the effect that characteristics of innovation and partnership as relationship with trading partner will affect the Web-EDI implementation. To achieve these purposes, we surveyed people who are in charge of Web EDI in their companies. A survey questionnaire was sent 376 people in charge of Web EDI in their companies, and 66 usable responses were obtained. The results of this research can be summarized as follows. First, it's affirmed, among partnership factors, that participation and interdependence significantly affect Web EDI implementation. It's also suggested, among innovation factors, compatibility, relative advantage, and cost reduction significantly affect Web EDI implementation.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.171-197
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• 2003

There have been quite many studies to identify factors affecting successful implementation of EDI systems. However, previous studies have investigated influencing factors independently. Given the complexity involved in the implementation of EDI systems, it might be quite necessary to investigate the interaction effects between influencing factors. The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the interaction effects of organizational characteristics as contextual variables on the relationship between managerial characteristics and EDI implementation. Analysis of 202 responses of survey questionnaire indicates the following: 1) Education/training and top management support has positive effect on the successful EDI implementation. 2) The degree of decentralization has strong, and management risk position has mild moderating effect on the relationship between managerial characteristics and EDI implementation. 3) The degree of formalization and organizational size have no moderating effect. 4) The subgroup analysis, conducted to determine the exact nature of interaction effect, reveals that the relationship between managerial characteristics and EDI implementation is significantly stronger with a high level of decentralization or management risk position than with a low level.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.47-65
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• 2000

KINITI implemented a claim system with EDI. This paper presents the way in which electronic data interchange(EDI) can be used to assist in the management of claim information and describes the definition, structures, benefits, problems of EDI and future enhancement.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.1-19
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• 2002

The fact that EDI is the IT system between partners implies the importance of studying the affecting factors associated with partnership in EDI. But there are few researches about the inter-organizational factors related to the relationship between partner firms, so called partnerships, influencing the implementation of EDI. Therefore our research is to investigate the relationship between partnership and EDI implementation with inter-organizational perspective. Additionally, we investigate the moderating role of EDI adoption attitude when the companies are divided into two groups, proactive attitude and reactive attitude. As a result, first, we found the positive relationships between the partnership factors about partnerships among trading partners and the degree of EDI implementation. Second, we expected that proactive firms have stronger significant relationships than reactive firms, but only the relationships between interdependence and integration, interdependence and utilization and trust and integration were proved to be signigicant among ten relationships. Third, we found positive relationships between EDI adoption attitude and EDI implementation.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.99-115
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• 1999

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is an important part of interorganizational electronic commerce due to the strategic impact derived from its use. In order to ensure successful implementation of EDI, EDI controls must first be developed. Because they are implemented in an environmental context, the characteristics of organizational environments have a significant impact on EDI controls. The control strategy for the EDI system - formal, informal, and automated controls - should fit certain organizational environments. A research model has been developed to depict the moderating effects of six environmental variables including industry, organizational, and task characteristics on the relationships between controls and implementation. It is shown empirically that the relationships between EDI controls and implementation are indeed affected by these factors. The results can help management design formal, informal, and automated controls in view of their own environmental contexts.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.149-149
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• 1991

The purpose of this study, based on a domestic sample of businesses using EDI systems, is to identify success factors, which affect the implementation of EDI system by Korean business entities. This paper also intends to provide useful guidelines for the establishment and management of EDI systems. This paper, first, develops a conceptual framework based on pervious research to identify factors which affect successful implementation of EDI system. Second, it integrates the constructs from previous research studies into a single survey instrument. Third, it presents the findings regarding the degree to which each factor influences the successful implementation of EDI system. It's revealed in the study that such factors as EDI vendor support, EDI education and training, participation by transactional partners, the size of organization, and the level of decentralization among organizational and environmental characteristics influence successful implementation of EDI systems in Korean business environment.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.149-169
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• 1999

The purpose of this study, based on a domestic sample of businesses using EDI systems, is to identify success factors, which affect the implementation of EDI system by Korean business entities. This paper also intends to provide useful guidelines for the establishment and management of EDI systems. This paper, first, develops a conceptual framework based on pervious research to identify factors which affect successful implementation of EDI system. Second, it integrates the constructs from previous research studies into a single survey instrument. Third, it presents the findings regarding the degree to which each factor influences the successful implementation of EDI system. It's revealed in the study that such factors as EDI vendor support, EDI education and training, participation by transactional partners, the size of organization, and the level of decentralization among organizational and environmental characteristics influence successful implementation of EDI systems in Korean business environment.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.87-116
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• 2003

One of the important applications for business-to-business electronic commerce is in procurement and inventory management using electronic data interchange(EDI). Using online catalogs and approved supplier lists, firms can easily create requisitions and purchasing documents. The emerging trend in EDI technology is changed from VAN(Value Added Network) based EDI to XML based EDI. This paper intends to suggest a component-based XML/EDI system using Unified Modeling Language(UML), as an application system for automobile part industry. Applying component based XML/EDI systems designed with UML methodology, we analyzed the workflow and the document on procurement process between trading partners and implemented a prototype of efficient XML/EDI system, as a surrogate of existing VAN/EDI. The result of applying object-oriented CBD(Component Based Development) technique is to minimize the risk of life cycle and facilitate the reuse of software as mentioned to limitation of information engineering methodology. It enables the interoperability with corporate legacy systems such as ERP(Enterprise Resource Planning), SCM(Supply Chain Management). This system proposes a solution to apply analysis phase and design phase in implementation of XML/EDI system. The implementation of XML/EDI system using CBD shows the ease of use in software reuse and the interoperability with corporate internal information system. The purchasing department with XML/EDI system can electronically communicate purchase orders, delivery schedules to external suppliers and interoperate with other application systems.