Emergencies are events that vary in complexity and dynamically shift along different phases of evolution, requiring different types of participants. Emergency management is an interdisciplinary field that involves multiple organizations holding different mandates and structural chains of command. This poses a challenge for collaboration in the way strategic problems are solved at each stage of ...

Dynamic inter-organizational business process management (DIBPM) combines service-oriented business integration (SOBI) and workflow management as a promising approach for supporting commercial businessto-business (B2B) activities over web-based infrastructures. SOBI applies concepts from the field of serviceoriented computing in the domain of dynamic business collaboration. Currently, SOBI tech...

Information technology (IT) enables businesses to integrate information systems across entities without altering the firms’ legal boundaries. New forms of inter-firm dependence and governance mechanisms may arise, due to the explicit investments made in technology and systems for collaboration purposes. There is an important distinction between general and customized investments in inter-organi...

Business environments have been profoundly changed by emerging innovations in the field of information technology (IT). In addition, collaborative agreements, such as inter -organizational networks, have shaped modern economies. The field of intra-organizational IT alignment has shown that it contributes to the explanation of the functioning and value delivery of IT in an organizational context...

Inter-enterprise collaboration has become essential for the success of enterprises. As competition increasingly takes place between supply chains and networks of enterprises, there is a strategic business need to participate in multiple collaborations simultaneously. Collaborations based on an open market of autonomous actors set special requirements for computing facilities supporting the setu...

The question for the effectiveness of inter-organizational collaboration gains much attraction in the light of social network analysis. We analyze this by the case of Initial Public Offering (IPO) deal networks as this is a valuable example for the repeated collaboration of autonomous organizations on a shared goal and data is publicly available. We use the social networks established through d...

The effective smoothening factor in different forms of collaboration has proven to be getting trustworthy partner organizations. Nowadays, trust among the 21st century organizations should be analyzed and assessed with a look from a different angle than how it has been conceptualized and addressed for such organizations in the past. In the past as it has been commonly practiced, the concept of ...