Universities are highly computerized places with a strong technological infrastructure ranging from ERP implementations used for the re-organization of administrative processes to web-based learning applications and development tools deployed to restructure existing leaning models. However, the outcome of these technological interventions is not quite clear mainly because the interaction betwee...

Web-based collaboration is becoming increasingly common. Often such collaboration exhibits emergent characteristics, for which systems based on a notion of workspaces provide suitable support. Virtual teams collaborating in this manner create virtual organizational structures, the capture and retention of which into organizational memory promises to be of benefit, as it can facilitate reuse. Vi...

Transactive memory system (TMS) refers to the knowledge storage in individual's memory. Members in the organization rely on the knowledge network, and they have to utilize their knowledge and expertise to achieve shared goals. TMS consists of three parts: specialized team knowledge, mutual trust between members, and organized task processes (Lewis, 2003). Past research focused on the group leve...

The ability to realize the potential of innovations is important for societies to be successful. The core of the concept of Plug and Play Business is an integrated set of ICT-tools that support innovators in turning their ideas into businesses by forming virtual enterprises for inter-organizational and interoperable collaboration. In this paper, we analyze the concept of Plug and Play Business ...

The emergence of the Internet has broken down geographic and organizational boundaries, providing a virtual common workplace regardless of the heterogeneity of participating organizations. Enterprise projects that used to be done autonomously now span multiple organizations. While an inter-organizational work ow, as one of several technologies supporting inter-organizational collaboration, prov...

Interorganizational processes have been described as an intricately choreographed dance. Standardized workflow serves as a medium for participants to exchange complimentary moves that comprise the ‘dance’. Attempts to develop open process standards, such as Rosetta Net, have had limited success in finding wide-spread adoption. We argue that standardization of interorganizational business proces...

In the current environment of global collaboration, multiple models for collaborative ventures have been introduced. We consider traditional, contractual interactions as well as three modes of collaboration—supply-chain management, a standard virtual organization, and inter-organizational collaborative software development (ICSD). After outlining multiple characteristics of these modes, and the...

Many real world manufacturing problems are too complex to be modeled analytically. The complexity of enterprise systems, the increasing needs for advanced collaboration between various systems within one institution or among many collaborating parties, and the velocity of organizational, policy, structural and market changes present nowadays challenges for the research community to develop more...

INTRODUCTION This article summarizes and synthesizes the findings of four separate but inter-linked empirical projects which explored challenges of collaboration in the Norwegian health system from the perspectives of providers and patients. The results of the four projects are summarised in eight articles. METHODS The eight articles constituted our empirical material. Meta-ethnography was us...

This paper presents the findings from a study of collaborative work among design professionals in virtual modeling for building construction. The research is based on interviews conducted with members from various design professions. We analyzed a building project comprising a network of organizations interrelated by their information systems, to gain a better understanding of collaborative des...