Continuing medical education's transition from an emphasis on dissemination to changing clinical practice has made it increasingly necessary for CME providers to develop effective interorganizational collaborations. Although interorganizational collaboration has become commonplace in most sectors of government, business, and academia, our review of the literature and experience as practitioners...

As the external environment and alliance partnerships become more complex, managers should consider appropriate partners to enhance the efficiency and performance of their chain, as well as to gain potential competitive advantages (Chang, et al., 2007). Additionally, due to increasing global competition many organizations are aware of the benefits of using electronic solutions to support their ...

Trust has been emphasized to have important influences on the success of interorganizational systems. This paper focuses on how various types of trust impact the various types of investments in IOS related resources and the Interorganizational system’s information quality (IOS IQ). The combination of the invested resources of both organizations is argued to produce IOS capabilities that fit the...

To date, workflow management focuses on improving the effectivity and efficiency of business processes within one organization. However, today’s corporations are challenged to cross organizational boundaries. Phenomena such as electronic commerce, extended enterprises and the Internet stimulate the cooperation between organizations. Therefore, it is interesting to consider workflows distributed...

With growing use of interorganizational systems, the scope of interfirm collaboration has increased considerably, particularly in the supply chain context. An important prerequisite of interfirm collaboration is information sharing. Extant research suggests clear advantages of information sharing. The research at hand addresses antecedents of interorganizational information sharing. Based on fi...

Two profiles of interorganizational governance of IT were obtained from interviews conducted with leaders involved in setting the governance mechanism needed to support successful IT collaboration with their business partners. Three attributes, based on literature from network governance streams, were used to uncover those profiles. They are the IT governance structure, the processes put in pla...

A great deal of controversy exists about the impact of Information technology on the global performance within the supply chain. Many theoretical explanations could be advanced to cover this issue. The present paper discusses this problematic and proposes that the climate of the interorganizational relationships could moderate the advantages of Interorganizational Information systems within the...

Increasingly, companies use interorganizational information systems to conduct joint business processes, such as automatic replenishment systems and other supply chain initiatives, invoicing and payments, insurance claims processing and numerous other interorganizational processes. Inter-firm networking in turn increases the visibility of information generated and used by business partners. The...

With the rise of the Web as the major platform for making data and services available for both, humans and applications, interorganizational workflows became a crucial issue. Several languages for the specification of interorganizational workflows have been already proposed, each of them having different origins and pursuing different goals for dealing with the unique characteristics of interor...

During recent years, research has, provided evidence that increasing interorganizational collaborations (networking) play a central role in determining firms innovation by demonstrating that the locus of innovation is an interorganizational system of actors. Both the relationship between networking and innovation and the role of science partners in interorganizational relationships and R&D netw...