The Study on the Impacts of Business-to-Business Relationship Commitment on Information Sharing

Abstract

As the product life cycle become more shorter and the global market is increasingly competitive than before, great importance is attached to supplier management by manufacturing industry. Information sharing can promote high level of coordination between manufacture and supplier . It is necessary to research what factors impacts on information sharing. Based on the investigation among Chinese enterprises, The influencing factors on information sharing are examined in this paper on manufacturer’s perspective. Firstly, the results show the relationship characteristics between manufacturer and supplier by influencing relationship commitment affects information sharing, The relationship characteristics between manufacturer and supplier include trust, power and product interdependence; Second, manufacturer internal factors through relationship commitment affects information sharing, manufacturer internal factors include executives support, technical support, innovative culture and employee capacity; Third, relationship commitment can be divided into three dimensions: normative relationship commitment, instrumental relationship commitment and emotional commitment. Manufacturing industry should pay attention to formation and maintenance of relationship with supplier, based on long-term orientation, it is beneficial to information sharing.