Abstract
This paper deals with the analysis of optimal design of management information systems for the electronic commerce among firms consisting of important factors in the backyard such as EDI, especially from the viewpoint of Actor Theory. We emphasize modeling of traceability using the IC tags which play important roles in the EDI among firms, and simultaneously try to deduce a kind of cause-effect model(Actor model) based on our own analytical result of questionnaires. As is known in the Actor Network Theory, all elements such as human, products, and so on in the system are regarded as important factors under the constitutional framework, and this kind approach is useful to analyze the success/failure process in the information system design. We find that there exist two kinds of attitudes against the traceability, namely, passive and active attitudes, and these difference surely affect the second-hand use(reuse) of IC tags, and the configuration of backyard systems.
