When designing a service-based business process employing loosely-coupled services, one is not only interested in guaranteeing a certain flow of work, but also in how the work will be performed. This involves the consideration of non-functional properties which go from execution time, costs, up to security and trust. Ideally, a designer would like to have guarantees over the behavior of the ser...

Marketers often stress the importance of treating customers as partners. A fundamental premise of this perspective is that all parties can be weakly better off if they work together to increase joint surplus and reach Pareto-efficient agreements. For marketing managers, this implies organizing marketing activities in a manner that maximizes total surplus. This logic is theoretically sound when ...

The imperative to increase seafood supply while dealing with its overfished local stocks has pushed the European Union (EU) and its Member States to fish in the Exclusive Economic Zones of other countries through various types of fishing agreements for decades. Although European public fishing agreements are commented on regularly and considered to be transparent, this is the first global and h...

The DoD develops and manages information exchange requirements and their associated business practices to support all military operations. To support the required information exchanges, messaging standards and associated business rules for information exchange among command and control systems have been developed and used for the past thirty years. These messaging standards serve a global user ...

An Interorganizational Business Process (IOBP) is an organized group of related activities carried out by multiple organizations to accomplish a common business goal. A consequence of this is that business process modeling and design used inside an organization have to be enhanced and extended to cope with interorganizational business relationships. Modeling business processes that span multipl...

This paper provides some preliminary research into the interdependent nature of the franchising relationship. The complementary roles that franchisors and franchisees play in the relationship are drawn from existing theory and extended to incorporate desired competencies and qualities of each channel member. A link between these roles and satisfaction with the franchising relationship is propos...