Before a Business Process Reengineering project is initiated, a solid understanding of the existing business processes in the organization is necessary. This paper examines and compares two approaches for modeling business processes. Both approaches are unique in the sense that they are founded in the speech act theory and consider communication to be the core of the business process. The two a...

Although numerous studies acknowledge the increasing importance of the Internet communication in business-to-business relationships, there is not any wide investigation on its characteristics in different stages of a business relationship development. Hence, this paper explores how Internet communication facets (frequency, direction, mode and content) vary throughout the process of the relation...

Since 1985, the field of professional communication has grown in size and reputation while maintaining a space within its primary disciplinary home English department. This article relies on historical evidence to examine how that was once evenly divided between business technical is now communication-centric, almost exclusion communication. The authors pose questions about faculty who consider...

The purpose of this paper is to describe business-to-business (B2B) communication and the characteristics of an open standard for electronic communication within the Australian timber and wood products industry. Current issues, future goals and strategies for using business-to-business communication will be considered. From the perspective of the Timber industry sector, this study is important ...

Diierent workkow modeling methods normally emphasize diierent aspects in business process, such as activity-based method emphasizes the activity and the way to fullll the activity; while the communication-based method emphasizes the communication between the customer and the supplier. Existing workkow modeling approaches are innexible and ineeective in modeling real life business tasks. To over...