Over the past three decades, U.S. science and technology funding agencies have increasingly supported large-scale, centralized, lock grant-based research projects that often span multiple disciplines and institutions. This trend has developed at such a rate that esearch focused on understanding the management of these new collaborative models has largely not kept pace. We use two case tudies of...

Belief in the resource-saving and service-enhancing potential of inter-organizational collaboration has become virtually an article of faith among resource providers, client advocates, and service planners. Yet collaboration in practice encounters myriad difficulties, and successful collaborations seem to be relatively rare. In this paper, we focus on providers’ incentives to collaborate: why m...

Inter-departmental innovation collaboration facilitates innovation performance. At the same time, it has been identified as source of increased coordination costs. Using organizational information processing theory, this paper builds and tests hypotheses on the costs and benefits of innovation-related collaboration within firms. Based on a sample of 433 German manufacturing firms we show inter-...

In this chapter, flexibility and adaptation of collaborative processes occurring among organizations by applying the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) at the inter-organizational level are considered. First, an in-depth rationale for a service-oriented approach to inter-organizational collaboration is presented. The need for SOA at the inter-organizational level is explained by the ubiquity o...

Inter-cultural communication apprehension is one of the major factors that may influence the processes of the interorganization collaboration in electronic commerce. It is an obstruction, prohibiting inter-organization collaboration in different ways. If we can manage the inter-cultural communication apprehension properly, we may be able to bring organizations of different cultures together for...

As business environments become increasingly competitive, inter-organizational collaboration gains in importance. This trend is facilitated and enforced by the availability of powerful information technology (IT) that enables inter-organizational electronic communication and information processing. Besides improving the efficiency of inter-organizational processes through the automation of task...

Background The current literature proposing criteria and guidelines for collaborative health system research often fails to differentiate between: (a) various types of partnerships, (b) collaborations formed for the specific purpose of developing a research proposal and those based on long-standing relationships, (c) researcher vs. decision-maker initiatives, and (d) the underlying drivers for ...

135 ABSTRACT Quick changes in requirements and opportunities in world market needs different levels of cross-organizational collaboration for integrating distributed information systems, information sharing and coordination of organizational processes. Nowadays, Web Services are the most common technology to meet these requirements. Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL), a Wor...