Representing mechatronic products in interorganizational information systems requires means for capturing characteristics of this type of products. This role is fulfilled by mechatronic product models which are subject of this paper. A mechatronic product consists of three components: software, electronics, and mechanics. The challenge is that diverse interrelations between their components and...

The success of an organization depends on rapid, reliable, and direct communications within the organization and with the outside world. To determine if electronic mail (e-mail) provides a competitive benefit, a sample of 99 management-level participants in 41 companies responded to a survey that assessed their intraorganizational (internal) and interorganizational (external) uses of e-mail. Th...

Innovative technologies are changing the landscape of interorganizational relationships. Following proprietary interorganizational information systems (IOS), the advent of Internet-based electronic commerce provided new opportunities and challenges to connect businesses, facilitate transactions, and enable collaborations among business partners, sellers and buyers, and businesses and public ins...

An Interorganizational Business Process (IOBP) is an organized group of joined activities carried out by two or more organizations to achieve a common business objective. A consequence of this is that business process modelling and design used inside an organization have to be enhanced and extended to cope with interorganizational business particularities. Thus, methods are required to describe...

Secure knowledge management for eBusiness processes that span multiple organizations requires intraorganizational and interorganizational perspectives on security and access control issues. There is paucity in research on information assurance of distributed interorganizational eBusiness processes from a business process perspective. This paper presents a framework for secure semantic eBusiness...

AbstracL Internet-based technology, E-commerce, and the rise of networked virtual enterprises have fueled the need for interorganizational workftows. Although XML allows trading partners to exchange information, it cannot be used to coordinate activities in different organizational entities. Business-la-business processes are hindered by the lack of a common language to support collaboration. T...

This study investigates the antecedents of relationship satisfaction between B2B e-commerce trading partners. Relationship satisfaction is critical for sustaining long-term interorganizational relationships that allow for the development of interorganizational resources necessary to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Using the relational view of the firm (Dyer and Singh, 1998) as a theo...

This paper draws insights from the relational view perspective to examine effects of two postformation alliance capabilities—interorganizational coordination and communication, relation-specific investments on small- medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs') environmental innovation. Analysis time-lagged survey data a sample 223 SMEs United Arab Emirates (UAE) shows positive interactive effect interorg...

Introduction Previous research provides only partial evidence about the trends in interorganizational development and sharing of geographic information systems (GIS) and databases, the obstacles and facilitators of interorganizational activities, and the benefits derived from the joint activities. Anecdotal evidence is provided primarily through conference presentations, usually as a discussion...

Collaborative business has been increasingly developing with the environment of globalization and advanced information technologies. In a collaboration environment with multiple organizations, participants from different organizations always have different views about modeling the overall business process due to different knowledge and cultural backgrounds. Moreover, flexible support, privacy p...