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1、DecisionSciencesC2012TheAuthorsVolume43Number3DecisionSciencesJournalC2012DecisionSciencesInstituteJune2012DoesSecurityImpactE-procurementPerformance?TestingaModelofDirectandModeratedEffectsGaneshVaidyanathan†IndianaUniversitySouthBend,1700MishawakaAvenue,SouthBend,IN46
2、634,e-mail:gvaidyan@iusb.eduSarvDevarajandJohnDArcyUniversityofNotreDame,MendozaCollegeofBusiness,NotreDame,IN46556-5646,e-mail:sdevaraj@nd.edu,jdarcy1@nd.eduABSTRACTDespitethewidespreadadoptionofe-procurementandthecriticalroleofinforma-tionsecurityinthesesituations,acade
3、micresearchexaminingtherelationshipbetweeninformationsecurityande-procurementperformancehasbeensurprisinglyminimal.Thisstudyrepresentsaninterdisciplinaryapproachtopresentandtestatheoreticalmodelthatlinkssecurityine-procurementprocessestoe-procurementperformance.E-procurem
4、entperformanceismeasuredasacombinationofcostsavings,orderqual-ity,andsatisfactionoffulfillmentasperceivedbybuyers.Themodelalsopositsthattwoaspectsoftheprocurementprocesswillenhancethevalueofsecurityine-procurement,namely,processcomplexityandprocessinterdependence.Weempiric
5、allyexaminetheserelationshipsusingdatacollectedfromprocurementmanagers.Ourresultshaveimpor-tantimplicationsformanagingthee-procurementprocess.[Submitted:May12,2009.Revised:June1,2011.Accepted:October23,2011.]SubjectAreas:AgencyTheory,DirectEffects,E-procurementPerformance
6、,ModeratedEffects,Principal-agentPerspective,ProcessComplexity,ProcessInterdependency,Security.INTRODUCTIONFirmsareincreasinglyinvestingininformationtechnology(IT)toenablee-procurement,definedastheuseoftheInternetbybuyersandsellerstoac-cessandexchangedataforbusiness-to-bus
7、iness(B2B)e-commercetransactions(Robinson,Sahin,&Gao,2005).Inthisarticle,ourfocusisonthebuyersideofe-procurementtheuseofInternettechnologiesbyfirmsintheprocurementpro-cesstoprocureproductsandservices.Inarecentsurvey(Hannon,2005),65%ofpurchasingmanagerssaidthattheyplantostr
8、eamlineinternalprocurementpro-cessesandsystemstoreducecosts.Oneofthebenefitsofe-procurementisfast
