The Impact of IOS-Enabled Business Process Change on Business Outcomes: Transformation of the Value Chain of Japan Airlines
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Journal of Management Information Systems
- Vol. 14 (1), 13-40
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07421222.1997.11518152
Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between IOS-enabled business process change and business outcomes. A generic framework for analyzing IT-enabled business process change is applied to a case study analysis of Japan Airlines (JAL). Drawing on a resource-based view of the firm, we investigate the ways in which IOS not only contributed to JAL’s improved competitiveness but also enabled it more fully to leverage its strategic value chain as an engine of growth and a new source of competitive advantage. Our focus is on JAL’s strategic use of the AXESS Computer Reservation System and Electronic Data Interchange, developed with a clear strategic intention to support JAL’s emerging strategies on customer service, sales, value chain logistics coordination, and cost reduction. JAL’s collaboration with the IOS-transformed virtual value chain firms significantly contributed to JAL’s business growth and competitiveness. JAL’s time-based competitiveness has been improved through its IOS-enabled interfirm joint product innovation cycle time reduction.Keywords
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