This work deals with IT governance integration in an information system (IS), since it’s one of the main worries to maintain alignment between information technologies and business strategy. It uses COBIT as IT Governance framework saw its generic, and flexible appearance to produce a measurable picture of the current state of IS, through structured IT control activities. It appealed to Loose I...

This paper presents a case study of critical infrastructure protection in the Dutch financial sector. The organizational structures are examined to discern the roles and functions that facilitate public-private cooperation. An assessment of the organizational structures is provided along with a description of how key organizations are identified. Finally, a basic model is presented that can be ...

The provision of multi-organizational time-critical services requires integrated data exchange across partners, but achieving this technical goal requires sustained and comprehensive attention to inter-organizational relationships and governance mechanisms. This article first describes a general framework that captures the requirements for multi-organizational collaboration for different time-c...

Undoubtedly, information technology (IT) has undergone extensive developments in various social and economic spheres; its effect on human society is in such a way that the world today is referred as information society. Besides, information technology, attributed as the main agent of global change, is to achieve meta- organization purposes. It also pertains to appropriate information formulated...

Inter-organizational cost management is a strategic cost management approach to managing costs that span organizational boundaries in supply chains. Drawing on the resourcebased view of the firm, we develop a model to predict which inter-related resources might enable companies to manage inter-organizational costs. We test this model using a survey of managerial accountants whose organizations ...

Purpose – External knowledge is generally believed to be of prime importance to small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, a review of the literature shows that no empirical research has looked at knowledge management issues at the inter-organizational level in SMEs. This paper seeks to report on an empirical investigation with UK SMEs in the service sector to identify their needs and p...

A nomadic information environment is a heterogeneous assemblage of interconnected technological and organizational elements, which enables physical and social mobility of computing and communication services between organizational actors both within and across organizational borders. We analyze such environments based on their prevalent features of mobility, digital convergence, and mass scale....

This paper questions the influence of a pre-existing information technology (IT) infrastructure on the formulation of an organizational knowledge strategy. We draw on a classification of four different strategic views of IT infrastructure and explore how the historic investment in IT infrastructure enables and constrains the formulation of knowledge strategy in four case organizations. The four...

Due to the increasing specialization of companies in a globalized world, inter-organizational process enactments have become increasingly relevant in recent years. Nevertheless there are hardly any scheduling approaches that meet the requirements of these inter-organizational processes, especially in terms of privacy aspects. In this paper we present a privacy-aware scheduling approach for hybr...