Efficient interorganizational business processes in the field of e-commerce require the integration of electronic document and data interchange and interorganizational processes. We propose to support interorganizational business processes by so-called XML nets, a new kind of high-level Petri nets. XML nets are a formal, graphical modeling language that allows to model both the flow of XML docu...

Interorganizational theories of management contend that collaboration and interdependencies between organizations can lead to distinct competitive advantages. Yet, this theory is largely rooted in the consumer goods industry (not healthcare) and has been examined primarily from the advantages provided to individual firms (not the community as a whole). In this research, we will explore the natu...

Today's corporations often must operate across organizational boundaries. Phenomena such as electronic commerce, extended enterprises, and the Internet stimulate cooperation between organizations. Therefore, it is interesting to consider workflows distributed over a number of organizations. Interorganizational workflow offers companies the opportunity to re-shape business processes beyond the b...

Today's corporations often must operate across organizational boundaries. Phenomena such as electronic commerce, extended enterprises, and the Internet stimulate cooperation between organizations. Therefore, it is interesting to consider work ̄ows distributed over a number of organizations. Interorganizational work ̄ow offers companies the opportunity to reshape business processes beyond the boun...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to consolidate the existing research on interorganizational projects and explore how organizations learn by closely examining multilevel learning, that is, organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach This article adopts a single case approach, Islamabad–Rawalpindi Metro project in Pakistan, with data consisting interview results archival data. An in...

Interorganizational workflows represent a new technique that offers companies a solution for managing business processes that involve more than one organization. In this paper, an interorganizational workflow will be modelled using a special class of nested Petri nets, interorganizational workflow nets (IWF-nets). This approach will allow the specification of the local workflows in the organiza...

This paper describes in an informal way the Public-To-Private (P2P) approach to interorganizational workflows, which is based on a notion of inheritance. The approach consists of three steps: (1) create a common understanding of the interorganizational workflow by specifying a shared public workflow, (2) partition the public workflow over the organizations involved, and (3) for each organizatio...

In this paper, we explore the process of interorganizational ontology engineering. Scalable ontology engineering is hard to do in interorganizational settings where there are many pre-existing organizational ontologies and rapidly changing collaborative requirements. A complex socio-technical process of ontology alignment and meaning negotiation is therefore required. In particular, we are inte...