Informating Transport Transparency
Författare
Summary, in English
This paper reports on an ongoing design-driven action research effort using information systems to promote transparency in the European freight transport industry. The current lack of transparency is linked to a growth of unsustainable business practices. This can be countered by reducing information asymmetry. However, access to reliable information is hampered by the severely fragmented organizational landscape of the transport industry coupled with the ephemeral nature of services and the inherently mobile and easily reconfigured resources of the trade.
The research presented here utilizes mobile crowdsourcing techniques as a means to overcome these challenges and to reduce information asymmetry in the focal transport seller-transport buyer relation. The findings point to the positive impact of a crowdsourcing approach, yet highlight the importance of a balanced holistic network approach empowering all participants — end customers, authorities, NGOs, buyers, intermediaries and sellers — by reflecting their diverse incentives for information sharing.
The research presented here utilizes mobile crowdsourcing techniques as a means to overcome these challenges and to reduce information asymmetry in the focal transport seller-transport buyer relation. The findings point to the positive impact of a crowdsourcing approach, yet highlight the importance of a balanced holistic network approach empowering all participants — end customers, authorities, NGOs, buyers, intermediaries and sellers — by reflecting their diverse incentives for information sharing.
Publiceringsår
2016
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1841-1850
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Ämne
- Information Systems, Social aspects
Conference name
49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2016
Conference date
2016-01-05 - 2016-01-08
Conference place
Koloa, United States
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-0-7695-5670-3