Arlyn Melcher
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
17 Papers
92 Citations
Arlyn Melcher is an academic researcher from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supply chain & Relationalism. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 17 publications.
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Papers
Why provide an online review? An extended theory of planned behavior and the role of Big-Five personality traits
TL;DR: Opinion, perceived pressure, neuroticism, and conscientiousness are significant predictors of an individual's intention to provide an online review and may help online retailers and/or intermediaries increase the number of online reviews provided.
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Toward a Typology of Buyer–Supplier Relationships: A Study of the Computer Industry*
TL;DR: An alternative buyer–supplier relationship typology is developed that integrates both relational content and power-dependence dimensions, resulting in four generic relationship types: market, power, autonomous-link, and constrained-link relationships.
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A review of buyer-supplier relationship typologies: progress, problems, and future directions
TL;DR: In this article, an alternative buyer-supplier relationship (BSR) typology is proposed based on alternative behavioral assumptions: bounded rationality and choice-determinism, and uses relationalism, supplier dependence and buyer dependence as the typology-defining variables.
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The Importance of Social Structure in Implementing ERP Systems: A Case Study using Adaptive Structuration Theory
Kimberly Furumo,Arlyn Melcher +1 more
TL;DR: Adaptive structuration theory is used to develop a research framework that is used in this paper to analyze the transition from the mainframe legacy system environment to the distributed ERP environment.
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Toward a production classification system
TL;DR: The proposed classification is intended to enlarge the scope of production systems that can be meaningfully classified by including production system properties used in previous classifications and incorporating new characteristics that describe major changes in emerging automated production systems.
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