第四利润源与中国企业信息化实证分析

随着信息在企业经营决策中的重要性日益突出,企业获取和加工处理信息的成本也呈上升之势。电子商务可使信息在企业内外部得到快捷高效的传递和利用,从而使企业在物质资源节约、劳动节约、物流费用节约等三种利润源之外得到信息成本节约这一新的利润源泉,在新的生产力基础上提高企业竞争力和赢利能力。问卷调查显示国内企业信息技术应用已有一定基础,IT业和金融业处于相对领先地位。

An Empirical Study on the Informationization of China's Enterprises and the Fourth Source of Profit

As information has become a vital factor for the competitiveness of enterprises, the cost of information, which is an important part of operation cost now, has direct influence on the profit of enterprise. Therefore, in addition to the three traditional ones, a new profit source-"the fourth source of profit"(FSP) has become available. The new profit source is rooted in increasing profit by reducing the cost of obtaining information as well as by using the information more efficiently. FSP is an inevitable result of economic and management informationization. Featured with high efficiency of information transmission and low cost, E-commerce is the most effective carrier of FSP. FSP and E--commerce are dependent on each other. By our questionnaire survey, we find the IT applications in China's enterprises has made impressive progress while the IT and Finance industries are in the leading position.