Given the increasing importance of value chain collaboration, business processes need to be more closely aligned across organizational boundaries. Hence, business process modeling and design have to be enhanced and extended to cope with inter-organizational business relationships. Among the challenges that arise are interdependencies between internal and external processes, different process lo...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of interpersonal and inter-organizational trust in IT outsourcing success according to the mediating role of knowledge sharing in the credit Samen institute. Method in term of purpose is applied in term of nature is descriptive and survey and in term of branch is a field. The study sample consisted of 80 individuals who are associated with th...

The purpose of this research was identifying factors affecting the development of processing and complementary industries of date palm in Khouzestan province. The method of research was causal comparative. The population of this research was managers in processing and complementary industries of date palm products of Khouzestan province (N=100). The return rate was 94% (N=94). By census method...

Inter-database linkage via annotations is one approach to the integration of knowledge in the biomedical domain, which is often fragmented by specialization. This pilot study examined annotations in ten model organism databases and the Gene Ontology (GO) to assess explicit and implicit linkages between organisms. The databases had similar annotation processes, content, and knowledge, with some ...

As suggested by several scholars, inter-organizational collaboration is an important vehicle for innovation, but working across organizational boundaries entails great complexity. In this paper, we argue that visual facilitation may act as a catalyst of inter-organizational teamwork, leading to increased knowledge sharing quality (H1), team performance (H2) and satisfaction (H3). On the other h...

The paper reports on the implementation of Lotus® Sametime® in a large financial services company. The paper uses the distinction of application and infrastructure view to elaborate on distinct modes of RTC use. Moreover, it provides a classification of managerial tasks and responsibilities and reflects on the balancing act of the managerial dictum and space for experimentation and organization...