This paper presents a comparative study on the usage of digital elements in networked collaborative virtual environments (NCVE). The focus of this study is to explore the characteristic of digital elements that promote social awareness. Social awareness is defined as the understanding of a contextual situation at a present time. In networked collaborative virtual environments (NCVE), awareness ...

Collaborative corporate requirements engineering and UI specification demands modelling approaches that all stakeholders can understand and apply. Using traditional engineering methods, an IT organization often experiences frustrating communication and competency issues. Current processes lack adequate tool support for networked and complex projects. By integrating overview & detail and zooming...

Organization’s concerns as controlling costs, improving quality, increasing effectiveness, and managing risk increasingly impose strong requirements on Business-IT alignment (B-ITa). Several Maturity Models came into being for considering improvement actions in B-ITa. The IT-Enabled Collaborative Network organizations (ICoNOs) maturity model specifically addresses the processes needed for achie...

ABSTRACT This paper is based on the central idea that networked teaching may best be improved by those engaged in it. Systematic enquiry into educational interactions can yield understandings and insights about one of the fundamental relationships of all educational endeavours: between teaching and learning. The paper explores this relationship through analyses of teaching and learning in a net...

International collaboration in science continues to grow at a remarkable rate, but little agreement exists about dynamics of growth and organization at the discipline level. Some suggest that disciplines differ in their collaborative tendencies, reflecting their epistemic culture. This study examines collaborative patterns in six previously studied specialties to add new data and conduct analys...

An outlook of future research needs on networked organizations p. 17 A modeling approach for designing value chain of VE p. 27 Role based and processes based modelling approach for organization network p. 35 Odamy extending B2B integration technology architecture p. 43 The typed domain-a recipe for creating virtual enterprises p. 53 Introducing time horizons to enterprise networking architectur...