In this paper the ealignment framework is presented. The ealignment framework is designed for alignment between organizations operating within a value web, which is also known as inter-organizational alignment. The ealignment framework focuses on the interaction between these organizations to create alignment. In addition, ealignment considers four different types of interaction. To analyze and...

A number of knowledge management (KM) approaches based on individual organizational KM strategies and business requirements have been developed without taking system interoperation into consideration. In this paper, a collaborative inter-organizational KM network is proposed to allow various organizations to access and retrieve inter-organizational knowledge. Ontology and mediation methods are ...

This chapter describes different means of evaluating the usability and suitability of computer-based inter-organizational information systems (IOISs). It begins with describing why doing so is important yet difficult, and provides an assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of the major types of evaluation. It continues with a case study focusing on determining whether an application prov...

This paper presents FLOWTEST a concept on testing interorganizational workflows on model-level. FLOWTEST focuses on building up test-models, deriving test-cases and executing tests on predefined workflows consisting of atomic web-services. The main goal of FLOWTEST is the realization of a test-suite to drive round-trip testing from code to model back to code level.

In the supply of mental health services to communities, data and information are managed not only by clinical organizations, but also by welfare state agencies and charities. The aim of this study is to use methods of analysis from actor network theory to identify organizational interventions necessary for the development of an information infrastructure for inter-organizational mental health s...

INTRODUCTION: A critical importance has been attached to altruism and organizational learning capability in the improvement of organizational performance. In light of this significance, the present study investigated the effect of altruism on organizational learning capability with the mediating role of communication conflict and organizational trust in Red Crescent provincial branches of Gilan...

Inter-organizational business process models are created and used by different partner networks. Often, those models are similar but differ in certain business needs. Due to the lack of methods and tools, companies are required to start from scratch to create their specific models instead of taking advantage of and re-using already existing models. Therefore, we first analyze reference modeling...

To examine the effects of inter-organizational activities on knowledge development in IT outsourcing projects, we develop a research framework based on a knowledge-based view of organizations. Using this framework, we model the process of knowledge development and utilize simulation to generate various scenarios with different levels of inter-organizational activities. We evaluate the developme...