This study aims to identify which factors affect inter-organizational collaboration (IOC) in interconnected infrastructure projects enable practitioners establish a collaborative environment at the project level. specific form of is characterized as “horizontal” and has received limited attention literature. To this end, systematic literature review Q-methodology were conducted. The involves fr...

Due to the cross-boundary characteristicof inter-organizational information systems (IOS), its usage is affected by inter-organizational relationships (IORs), which plays an even more important role in China.This paper develops a conceptual model of the influence of IORs on IOS usage and supply chain performance. Based on organizational learning theory, the paper dividespatterns of IOS usage in...

In Emergency Management (EM) teams are faced with dynamic and complex situations, often involving multiple teams and organizations working together under stressful circumstances. One of the key issues observed in emergency responses is inadequate communication. The communicative difficulties stem from various areas such as political, personal or jurisdictional. In order to improve communication...

Dynamic inter-organizational business processes are necessary to enable the flexible creation of partnerships in areas such as e-commerce and supply-chain-management. Although many information system architectures for the support of static inter-organizational business processes exist, such architectures are still not available for supporting dynamic inter-organizational business processes. In ...

The central idea of this paper is to comprehend knowledge integration in inter-organizational IS projects through a knowledge cluster view of inter-organizational IS projects. The proliferation of such projects combined with the complexity of managing them, motivated this study. The study is based on a single case study which involves four organizations collaborating on a project. Findings sugg...

The goal of this dissertation is to propose a theory of embeddedness and test it in the context of inter-organizational relationships. The theory argues that the structure of organizational relationships is determined by the setting in which they exist, and that this setting may be defined in terms of four inter-related dimensions: cognitive, cultural, structural and political. The study will i...

In our paper, a new approach for critical success factors of Business to Business (B2B) electronic commerce is presented. Important aspects of this approach can be classified into three main groups; environmental, internal and inter-organizational factors. The first group pertains to the factors that change the conditions equally for all companies in the business space and are out of influence ...

The technical customer documentation of a technical product plays an important role in international competition in industry. Customer documentation is more and more delivered, used and managed in electronic form. The main problems of technical customer document management in inter-organizational projects are related to unsystematic working procedures and heterogeneous information systems betwe...

The five concepts and theories that seem to have the most relevance to my current professional position as an English Language instructor and the head of an English Language and Education Department are: (1) diversity in the workplace and its effect on communication, (2) leadership, (3) management and administration, (4) decision making and (5) problem solving with a special focus on organizati...