Paper Info
Title
Effects of resource occupation and decision authority decentralisation on performance of the IoT-based virtual enterprise in central China
Abstract
Enterprises in China are extensively involved in collaborative virtual enterprise (VE) supported by the internet of things (IoT). This paper investigates the effects of member enterprises' resource occupation on performance of the IoT-based VE, and examines how such effects are moderated by decision authority decentralisation. We obtained the research data from a survey administered to 141 small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that participate in IoT-based VEs. Hierarchical regression analysis was adopted to test the proposed hypotheses. Our findings suggest that information and operational resources are positively associated with both business and market performance. Strategic decision authority decentralised to SMEs with superior information or operational resources enhances the overall performance, whereas decentralisation of operational decision authority facilitates the positive effects of operational resource on performance. Our study provides directive guidance for IoT-based VEs to cultivate and acquire specific superior resources, and allocate decision authorities reasonably for effective resource utilisation and collaboration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1080/00207543.2020.1806369
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Resource occupation, decision authority, decentralisation, performance measures, virtual enterprise
Journal
59
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
24
0020-7543
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhiping Zhou100.68
Jun Pei220226.56
Xin-Bao Liu325426.14
Hong Fu4237.13
P. M. Pardalos526945.19