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...

Interorganizational knowledge sharing is the major driving force to maximize the operational benefits across supply chain. Trust is considered as the key to facilitate knowledge sharing. This research proposes shared values and relational embeddedness as antecedents of interorganizational trust. Survey based on managers in major industrial parks in Taiwan confirm that trust is enforced when org...

Fichman & Goodman (1996) argue that understanding the relationships between customers and suppliers in industrial markets requires a multilevel analysis. The levels of analysis are individual evaluations of transactions between firms, the dyadic relation between a customer and supplier, and the network of relationships in which these dyadic relations and transactions are embedded. One must cons...

Previous studies suggest that information technology (IT) is critical to the development of collaboration between supply chain partners. Our study posits that the effect of IT is not predetermined by its technological capabilities. Rather, its effect on interorganizational collaboration is the emergent properties of the interplay between IT and existing relationships between partners. Based on ...