As the needs for interconnections of processes in different companies or departments are so increasing and companies try to realize business processes across organizational boundaries, the correctness issues of inter-organizational workflow definition is getting more important. In this paper, we develop community process definition language(CPDL) for inter-organizational workflow specification....

* This project is supported by NSF under grant number IIS-0534065 ABSTRACT Solving complex global problems such as illegal immigration, border control, and terrorism requires government organizations at all levels to share not only data but, more importantly, knowledge pertinent to decision support, problem solving and activity coordination. Responding to an emergency often requires organizatio...

In the United States, tobacco control activities are organized primarily in state tobacco control programs. These programs are comprised of public and private agencies working together to reduce tobacco use. The human, financial, and informational resources that go into state tobacco control programs are documented, and the outcomes of these programs have been studied in terms of health and hea...

The aim of this paper is to discuss which factors can be seen essentially affecting a company’s learning ability through its organizational receptivity in inter-organizational knowledge transfer. This will be done by developing a typology of the factors affecting company’s organizational receptivity (and absorptive capacity) of new knowledge in inter-organizational knowledge transfer. Yet, only...

Workflow systems are gaining importance as an infrastructure for automating inter-organizational interactions, such as those in Electronic Commerce. In such an environment, a centralized Workflow Management System is not desirable because: (i) it can be a performance bottleneck, and (ii) the systems are inherently distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous in nature. Decentralized execution of ...

The world wide web provides an integrating platform for intra and inter-organizational systems. Understanding how the many actors interested in web infrastructure influence design, development and practice can provide insight as to how organisations can manage and make effective use of web infrastructure. The socio-technical perspective views information systems as being socially constructed by...

This paper examines a new inter-organizational form which is emerging from collaborative innovation processes within and across communities of firms operating in complementary markets. Idea sharing think tanks around high tech centers at leading universities and, more generally, around clusters, are well-documented phenomena. These inter-organizational processes and forms rest on collaborative ...

This paper addresses the relationship between complementarities in capabilities of firms and choice of organizational arrangements. The key focus is to generate an understanding of the incentives to invest in learning created by the choice of different ownership structures and how the nature of innovation activity affects the choice of such organizational forms. It develops a theoretical framew...

Introduction: We describe the restructuring that is taking place in primary health care (PHC) in Portugal and discuss how the new emerging organization and work practices reflect in care transitions and intraand inter-organizational integration. Theory and methods: PHC represents an essential support for the restructuring that is taking place in health care in Portugal. We conducted a case stud...