Value Chain Crossing: insights and opportunities for future research. (4th March 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Beimborn, Daniel; Martin, Sebastian F.; Franke, Jochen
• Is Part Of: International journal of electronic business. Volume 6:Number 1(2008)
• Page Start: 93
• Page End: 109
• Publication Date: 2008-03-04
• Subjects: business process outsourcing -- BPO -- value chain crossing -- VCC -- innovation adoption -- lateral cooperation -- e-business -- electronic business -- business cooperation -- financial services; Electronic commerce -- Periodicals; 658.05467805
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1470-6067

Abstract

In this paper, we present a research framework that tackles a promising area of e-Business largely neglected before, namely the lateral cooperation of firms from two different industries that interconnect their business processes by means of electronic integration. We refer to this kind of e-Business cooperation as 'Value Chain Crossing' (VCC) and explore, as an exemplary application domain, the integration of financial processes in non-banks and financial service providers. To support our research proposal, we provide exploratory findings from an empirical survey accompanied by a series of case studies, which indicate that research in this area of e-Business is worthwhile to be conducted. We not only identified empirical evidence for a large potential of VCC but also found substantial inhibitors for the adoption of this idea.