Based on ethnographic studies of two business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce (EC) marketplaces and a review of interorganizational relationship literature, this paper proposes a model explaining why organizations form alliances to create and why organizations join B2B EC marketplaces. This paper proposes viewing B2B EC marketplaces as a public good. The paper uses public good theory as a...

Web service composition is a new way for implementing business processes. In particular, a choreography supportsmodeling and enactment of interorganizational business processes consisting of autonomous organizations. Temporal constraints are important quality criteria. We propose a technique for modeling temporal constraints in choreographies and orchestrations, checking whether the orchestrati...

Are interorganizational network ties “placeless” or “placed”? The study of organizations, particularly the study of interorganizational network ties, has reemerged in urban sociology, yet the urban literature on place and the organizations literatures on organizational network activity are not fully integrated. This article bridges these theories through an investigation of the social and spati...

Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) has formed the basis of interorganizational governance research for the past thirty years. This paper summarizes TCE and explores some of its criticisms, namely its restricted solution set and its ignorance of trustbased behaviors. Some of these concerns are addressed by the relational view of interorganizational governance, although a more compelling solution a...

There is a growing interest in intraand interorganizational network dynamics. The central question in the latter domain is, ‘‘How do firms choose collaborative partners given their present network configuration, their goals, and characteristics, to get a strategic network position?’’ We introduce actor-oriented network models as a method to describe and explain the development of interorganizat...

Government agencies globally are facing problems such as illegal immigration, terrorism, and disease diagnosis and control. Solutions to these problems rely heavily on collaborating organizations’ ability to effectively and efficiently share not only data but also knowledge embedded in organizational and interorganizational policies, regulations and constraints. Responding to an emergency often...

P research has shown how outcomes in interorganizational relationships are influenced by the characteristics of the individual relationship in question. Focusing on relationships between suppliers and their organizational buyers, we augment this perspective by positing that relationship outcomes are also influenced by social comparison processes involving perceptions of a supplier’s practices a...

In this paper, we present a description of research-inprogress into the organizational contexts and interorganizational relationships which generate demand for online information (Or) resources. Researchers who examine the use of OI resources have found that people don’t use online information as often as providers generally expect. But some organizations use these resources intensively within ...

RFID is a powerful new technology which, in combination with other information technologies, offers great potential for supporting interorganizational collaboration. The case study reported herein suggests that organizations adopting RFID will need to change their technical and organizational processes and make accommodations in response to political and environmental constraints. The study foc...

The rate and efficacy of organizational and interorganizational problem solving in complex, uncertain environments may be increased through structured information processes and appropriate uses of current information technology. This increased capacity for interorganizational problem solving may then be incorporated into policy and practice to increase the efficiency of international crisis man...