As business environments become increasingly competitive, inter-organizational collaboration gains in importance. This trend is facilitated and enforced by the availability of powerful information technology (IT) that enables inter-organizational electronic communication and information processing. Besides improving the efficiency of inter-organizational processes through the automation of task...

To examine the effects of inter-organizational activities on knowledge development in IT outsourcing projects, we develop a research framework based on a knowledge-based view of organizations. Using this framework, we model the process of knowledge development and utilize simulation to generate various scenarios with different levels of inter-organizational activities. We evaluate the developme...

Outsourcing is the remedy for many enterprises to improve their efficiency. However, to be able to assess the potential of one’s own as well as the external providers’ services, detailed information about the IT infrastructure and services is needed. In currently predominant IT Service Management Frameworks the so-called Configuration Management process provides an information nexus that is imp...

Enterprise information systems often face difficulties in linking various components and external systems. Interoperability among collaborating participants is hard to tackle in both business and IT domains. These call for effective architectural solutions that coordinate powerful technologies with business applications to enable seamless inter-organizational integration. The inter-organization...

Strategic alliances in the form of inter-organizational networks continue to receive attention in both service and manufacturing industries as a potential form of competitive. The healthcare industry has embraced these strategic alliances with much intensity and perhaps to a greater extent than many other industries. Yet, despite the increasing prevalence of inter-organizational arrangements ac...

A close collaboration between infrastructure owners is crucial to address challenges in the design and execution of next-generation projects for sustainable development. Managing sharing data among parties involved projects, particularly required at early stages a project develop an interconnected project, appear play critical role inter-organizational (IOC), but are often overlooked. In presen...

Software product line engineering is an inter-disciplinary concept. It spans the dimensions of business, architecture, process, and the organization. Similarly, Education System engineering is also an inter-disciplinary concept, which spans the dimensions of academic, infrastructure, facilities, administration etc. Some of the potential benefits of this approach include continuous improvements ...

Organizations experience frequent cyber-attacks, and recovery comes at a high cost. Of especially high concern are those breaches involving inter-organizational networks, since repercussions can quickly spread across organizations. We report on a case study of such a security incident. Inter-organizational cooperation was required to detect the scope of the breach and to recover from its effect...

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...

This paper aims at developing a framework for business-to-business (B2B) inter-organizational systems (IOSs), based on real-world IOS examples. Based upon two dimensions, role linkage and system support level, we propose a new framework that classifies IOSs into four basic types: (1) resource pooling, (2) operational cooperation, (3) operational coordination, and (4) complementary cooperation. ...