Economic vs. organisational perspective on inter-organisational relations’ analysis – are economists on the dead-end track?

An Industrial Relations Perspective on the ‘Five Economists’ Plan’ SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR WORKING PAPER SERIES

A Resource Dependence Perspective on Modelling Inter-Organisational IS Collaborations

This paper analyses the versatility of the Dependency Network Diagram (DND) method for modelling inter-organisational IS collaborations from a resource dependence perspective. Originally developed to facilitate the designing and optimising of structures, work processes, and supporting IT; the DND method shows signs of a potential broader usage toward managing such collaborations. Deploying a ca...

An inter-organisational perspective on challenges in one-stop government

Fragmentation and isolated development are main problems that hinder successful e-government in many situations. This paper therefore has an explicit inter-organizational perspective on challenges in one-stop government. In order to capture the inter-organizational perspective we present a conceptual framework, derived from the industrial/business network approach, that characterizes an interor...

Negotiating Inter-Organisational Processes

In this paper we develop a negotiation and contracting framework for inter-organisational workflows. The overall aim is to compute a group-plan from a given set of individual plans, where plans are formulated in the context of a given inter-organisational workflow between the agents. A general problem is that the individual plans are not consistent, i.e. the intersection of all individual plans...

An Organisational Perspective on Collaborative Business Processes

Business collaboration is about coordinating the flow of information among organisations and linking their business processes. It brings great challenge to keep participating organisations as autonomous entities in integrating business processes of these organisations seamlessly. To address this issue, we develop a new perspective on business collaborations with a novel concept called relative ...