Decision management: Role and effect of using an intelligent intermediary to aid in information sharing".

Abstract: Organizations have adopted new business channels, such as using electronic markets, to better enhance productivity of their operations through information and communications technology (ICT) enablement for greater reach and range in their transactions. These ICT tools, allowing streamlined processes, can enable new means of competition and coordination, changing how individuals and organizations exchange goods and services. The effectiveness of decision management using these markets depends on the electronic market design. In electronic markets, intermediaries are used as a ?someone?? who provides an added value mechanism for the transaction. This value role can be to mitigate risk, leverage uncertainties and/or reduce certain economic costs in the exchange of information.