Internet and supply chain management: Adoption modalities for Italian firms

The paper presents some results of the research "Internet and supply chain: new organizational and managerial models" based on a survey on 1458 firms operating in Italy and having more than 50 million euros turnover. 463 firms have taken part in the research, with a 31,8% response rate. Results show, a still scarce diffusion of internet-based tools,for supply chain management, but some interesting adoption modalities can be pointed out. Firms can be divided in those mainly oriented to supply chain execution processes,from those mainly driven to collaboration. in new product development and marketing processes. The analysis of the main features of the firms and of their inter-organizational coordination mechanisms with Supply, chain partners is performed.