Purpose – Human behavior significantly determines the scale of impact of hazardous situations. If crisis situations are highly dynamic, they can only be managed successfully if both personnel and organization are well prepared. The purpose of this paper is to capture the specific demands disaster management staff are facing, from a psychological perspective. Design/methodology/approach – Genera...

This paper discusses the interconnection requirements between management systems over the TMN X interface in terms of security and integrity, as well as the relationship between these two issues. A testing approach is developed in order to assess the impact of introducing security policies in the inter-domain communication between two independent TMN OSs, on the basic functional and performance...

The main aim of this thesis is to study the life cycle of the incremental “bottom-up” ideas, which concern process and organizational matters. According to earlier studies, bottom-up ideas are not always successfully used and managed and as well there exists need for more study on organizational and process innovations. It is therefore useful to study this phenomenon more and gain more informat...

In our project BSopt we have developed a model-driven approach towards inter-organizational systems. During its evaluation phase we recognized that different partner networks operate similar, but still slightly differ in some details. However, our current approach is limited with respect to re-use of models or parts thereof for different partner networks. Thus, we plan to incorporate well estab...

The linkage between economic and environmental issues in an inter-organizational context receives significant attention from scholars and industrial practice. Emerging concepts like Green Supply Chain Management (Green SCM), extending supply chain management with ecological aspects like resource optimization and recycling, might be the first step towards an ecologically responsible economy. But...

Acknowledgments: The author acknowledges valuable and constructive comments received on earlier versions of this manuscript from Professors Abstract The advent of modern technologies for information collection, dissemination and monitoring allows organizations to efficiently transact in interorganizational markets. The success of such relationships as strategic alliances and joint ventures ofte...

Fragmentation and isolated development are main problems that hinder successful e-government in many situations. This paper therefore has an explicit inter-organizational perspective on challenges in one-stop government. In order to capture the inter-organizational perspective we present a conceptual framework, derived from the industrial/business network approach, that characterizes an interor...

The emergence of inter-organizational system has facilitated easy and fast flow of information among the trading partners. This has affected the business relations among the trading parties involved. Though the inter-organizational systems have helped a lot in improving the business relations, the vulnerability and the virtual environment of such systems raise the issues of trust that may affec...