"To integrate various product-oriented business formulas of different enterprises into the software and service of a single, closed-loop solution”; “The software and service using Internet technology.

Internet of Things in the manufacturing production; Focuses on the establishment of intelligent products and production processes.

A physical device becomes an active part of a business process: delivering data, sending events, and processing rules, as in the connected world we cannot separate the physical world from business processes

Originates from the contingency theory, a knowledge body developed in the 1980s to explore the influence of a contingency factor on organizational structure and management. It suggests that an appropriate organizational structure depends on the business environment.

A production strategy that focuses on the production of personalized mass products, mostly through flexible processes, modularized product design and integration between supply chain members along the value chain

A mechanism that is controlled or monitored by computer-based algorithms, tightly integrated with the Internet and its users

The organization not only has to consider ERP in the organization plan but also has to deal with the IS of the corporate partners.

The degrees of inter-organizational trust and organizational interdependence

(1) Utilizing the existing ERP system in the company (done by OEM/ODM); (2) Developing the CPC system based on the framework of the RosettaNet; (3) Integrating all existing IS of related companies and redesigning business processes in order to achieve the required CPC system

An accepted mean to increase the variety of products, which are produced by tool-based technologies; The product architecture has to be decoupled into subsystems with very little interdependencies in order to achieve appropriate economies of scale.

A collaborative process across organizations with common suppliers or service consumers; Processes are transparent to every stakeholder in the supply chain.

(1) to connect supplier knowledge on certain products into a single and expanded experience base as a means to improve product quality and (2) to use the features of the Internet to reduce production time and distance in order to seize opportunities and allow for quick entry into the market.

Concrete structures and specifications of production processes are replaced by configuration rules, from which case-specific topologies can be derived automatically

CPC organizational fit characteristic, inter-organizational trust, organizational interdependence, implementation success, and implementation satisfaction.

Coordinating the proprietary resources among the partners → When the project managers plan the implementation of the CPC system, they must evaluate in advance the proprietary level of each resource among partners as well as the integration of the CPC system into the workflow of corporations.

Risks can be balanced and combined resources can expand the range of perceivable market opportunities. The organization in networks multiplies the available capacities without the need of further investments. Hence, companies in collaborative networks can adapt to volatile markets and shortened product lifecycles with high agility.

Significantly moderated the relationship between CPC organizational fit characteristic and implementation satisfaction, but not the relationship between organizational fit characteristic and implementation success

A CPC system that is capable of integrating information from different IS and management processes, which may include ERP, SCM, KM, EDI, BPR, and strategic alliances

A moderating effect on the relationship between the CPC organizational fit characteristic and implementation success, but not on the relationship between the organizational fit characteristics and implementation satisfaction

Data fit, process fit, and user interface fit. The process fit measured the fitness between the organizational processes built into the CPC system and the organizations that implemented the CPC system. The data fit determined whether the data format and the input and output data of the CPC system integrated directly with the data in the organization of implementation. The user interface fit determined whether the user interface of the CPC system met the requirements of the organizational implementation.