Business process compliance has become more and more important function for business process management (BPM). One of challenges in this area is to check the business process compliance in the business process life-cycle (design-time, run-time). In this paper, we propose a description logic-based approach for business process compliance checking during two phases of the business process life-cy...

business sustainability in all dimensions of economic, governance, social, ethical, and environmental (egsee) performance is gaining acceptance as many global stock exchanges either encourage or require their listed companies to issue sustainability reports and investors worldwide demand sustainability performance information. more than 8, 000 companies worldwide are disclosing various egsee di...

Background: Business process management systems (BPM) can automate all processes in an organization. These systems provide the possibility of identifying, modeling, deploying, implementing, function managing, integrating with other information systems, monitoring and improving an organization's business processes in a standard form. As far as the authors know, no related resear...

Business Networking beschreibt die Gestaltung und den Betrieb von Unternehmensnetzwerken. Mit Business Networking realisieren Unternehmen zwischenbetriebliche Potentiale wie verkürzte Time-to-market, erhöhte Flexibilität und Flächendeckung im Marktauftritt oder Reduktion des Investitionsrisikos und der Kapitalbindung. Business Networking tritt unternehmensintern in Form von modularen Strukturen...

In a service-oriented world, a long-running business process can be implemented as a set of stateful services that represent the individual but coordinated steps that make up the overall business activity. These service-based business processes can then be combined to form loosely-coupled distributed applications where the participants interact by calling on each other’s services. A key concern...

Integration and customization are increasingly becoming the dominant trends in the future of electronic commerce (e-commerce). Advances in networking, communications, and distributed computing technologies make it possible to better leverage internal and external competencies. E-business extends the consumer-centric e-commerce realm by including the business-to-business aspect of commerce. This...

International strategic alliances have become overwhelmingly used in today’s business environment. However, most of these alliances feature a very high rate of unsuccessfulness. Usually, business partners’ cultural distance is regarded as one of the main reasons that lead these alliances to their failure. Therefore, it is thought that companies belonging to similar national cultural environment...

This paper investigates the effects of organizational form on problemistic search. We contrast how Indian firms affiliated to business groups and unaffiliated firms evaluate performance and react by adjusting their internal technology search and external market search. We propose that, compared with unaffiliated firms, business group firms are more externally oriented in setting aspiration leve...

to be sure, all the industries try to be involved in globalization with a constant trend to find out ways to increase productivity across different functions within an organization to maintain competitive advantage world. pharmaceutical industries are not exceptional and further are based on fragmentation. so these kind of companies need to cope with several barriers such as silo mentality that...