Comparative analysis shows EDI influences business practices in the book trade, highlighting inter-organisational relationships.
Electronic data interchange (EDI) involves the electronic exchange of structured business information, allowing the computer-to-computer transfer of data between organisations with different information systems. This paper looks at the development of EDI in three sectors of the publishing industry: the book trade; the magazine and newspaper trade; and newsprint supply to newspapers. This comparative analysis focuses on how EDI communities (groupings of trading partners with agreed data transfer procedures) form. What implications does the nature of this process have for efforts to encourage the uptake of EDI? How does this process affect the prospects of using EDI to bring about radical changes in business practice and inter-organisational relationships?
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