Organizations now more than ever focus on fostering team work in their daily activities to secure better results for their stakeholders. Team work and collaboration are especially important for inter-organizational outsourcing relationships where these qualities are crucial for the successful knowledge transfer conducted throughout all phases of outsourcing relationship. Knowledge workers invol...

• Advances in Teaching and Learning Technologies, Joerg Haake, Eric Santanen, David H. Spencer; • Cognition and Knowledge Creation in Collaboration Technology Supported Group Works, Souren Paul; • Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Requiring Immersive Presence (CSCLIP), Nicholas C. Romano, Jr., Ramesh Sharda; • Design of (Inter-) Organizational Systems: Collaboration and Modeling, Jaco A...

One of the most fundamental processes in business competition is inter-organizational learning. To create and distribute value across organizational boundaries companies need to learn from their competitors. Increasingly it is clear that the learning process depends on the creation of a complex set of networks across organizations. This book explores the creation of 'learning networks' and shed...

Inter-organizational information systems depend at least as much on collaboration across organizational cultures as on the development of technical infrastructure for their success. Actor-network theory (ANT) is a useful approach for bringing together social and technical considerations. In this chapter we discuss key features of ANT and show how it might be applied to a particular case of IOIS...

Based on the literature on the diffusion of innovations and on information systems, and building on emerging concepts in electronic collaboration (e-collaboration), this article measures the influence of various determinants on manufacturing firms’ intent to use Web-based inter-organizational information systems (IOISs) to share inventory information with their key suppliers. This theoretical m...

A university-focused alliance portfolio is a manifestation of industry–university–research cooperation and has become an important path to realize original innovation in science technology. Unlike traditional technological innovation, particularly emphasizes new ideas research areas never covered before. This paper integrates resource-based theory, aims scientifically establish evaluation index...

The topic of collaboration in cross-organizational and cross-border settings is an emerging subfield of information systems research. This paper presents a compressive literature review of 52 research papers, published from 2000 to 2007, in four leading journals. The focus of the analysis are topics of investigation, sources of data, and the underlying theories. The results indicate that most o...

Purpose This study aims to examine and understand the impact of reverse logistics adoption on firms' digitalization collaboration activities. Specifically, leveraging knowledge-based view, this examines how adopting sustainable logistic practices (reverse logistics) prepares firms embrace encourages them collaborate with other organizations. Design/methodology/approach The used longitudinal sur...

Markup languages, representations, schemas, and tools have significantly increased the ability for organizations to share their information. Languages such as the Extensible Markup Language (XML) provide a vehicle for organizations to represent information in a common, machine-interpretable format. Furthermore languages, such as the Document Type Definition Language (DTD) and XML Schema Definit...