Diierent workkow modeling methods normally emphasize diierent aspects in business process, such as activity-based method emphasizes the activity and the way to fullll the activity; while the communication-based method emphasizes the communication between the customer and the supplier. Existing workkow modeling approaches are innexible and ineeective in modeling real life business tasks. To over...

Sociologists frequently invoke the concept of form when analyzing organizations, collective action, art, music, culture and other phenomena. Nonetheless, the form concept has not received careful theoretical analysis, either generally or in specific context. Using the tools of formal logic, set theory, and algebra, we propose a language for defining social forms that is suÆciently general to in...

This paper focuses on Mexican immigrants who are considering to start a business but do not so for various reasons (latent entrepreneurs). The research design is unusual in that it queries the individuals at the very preliminary stages of the process when they are contemplating the alternatives, so it is well suited to learn about the determinants of business ownership. First, the findings demo...

How does the definition of “entrepreneur” affect research results? We use a 12-year panel of individual tax returns to investigate the relationship of the definition of business form to the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs. Tax returns present multiple indicators of business activity—schedule C, partnerships, subchapter S corporations, etc. We document the extent to which various forms...

To execute a complex business task, business entities may need to collaborate with each other as individually they may not have the capability or willingness to perform the task on its own. Such collaboration can be seen implemented in digital business ecosystems in the form of simple coalitions using multi-agent systems or by employing Electronic Institutions. A major challenge is choosing opt...

Business Process Re-design is a major component of an Enterprise Systems (ES) implementation. Organizations adopting ES systems face the dilemma of deciding the degree of changes to their existing business process and or changes to the ES package. This paper explores the nature and process of business process re-design efforts of an organization that had successfully implemented an ES packaged ...

In cross-enterprise collaborative environment, we have dealt with challenges in business process integration for common business goals. Research directions in this domain range from business to business integration (B2Bi) to service-oriented augmentation. Ontologies are used in Business Process Management (BPM) to reduce the gap between the business world and information technology (IT), especi...

This paper studies a new paradigm for building and using Business Information Systems, accompanied by the required enabling technologies and business models, which will assimilate innovative marketplace concepts and thus allow for better process / activity oriented management. The proposed approach is inter-disciplinary (technology and management) and relies on combining the mobile object (agen...

The rise of Internet brings business to another competitive realm, or operation in conventional, physical marketplace heading for modern, virtual marketspace. Business managers often speculate on the business needs innovative form of operation under intensive change of environment. The alignment and transformation of the organizational structure should be actively reflected while a business has...

COMPUTER CRIME, HIGH-TECH CRIME, AND COMPUTER FRAUD ARE ALL terms used to describe the involvement of computers in the commission of crime. Computers have become a common business and household item and come in the form of personal organisers, notebooks, laptops, desktops, networks, mini and mainframe computers. Computer technology has not introduced a new crime but has changed the form of trad...