It seems that facilitating conditions for knowledge sharing, like a shared understanding, a common language as well as the multifold and direct relations between are idiosyncrasies of a knowledge network. However, these facilitating conditions are limited if a high turn over rate is involved in a knowledge network. As a consequence, capability differences between knowledge network members will ...

Available evidence about the government responses to World Trade Center attack indicates that information technology played a critically important role. Effective use of a variety of information technologies helped government agencies to better cope with and respond to the multiple crises, and ongoing recovery demands, resulting from the attack. At the same time, the severity of the crisis was ...

This paper contributes to the literature on organizational change by examining organizations as social entities embedded in inter-organizational networks. In contrast with extant research that focuses on macro environmental and internal factors to explain organizational change, we put forth the social network surrounding the firm as a major driver of any change process. Specifically, we examine...

An Interorganizational Business Process (IOBP) is an organized group of joined activities carried out by two or more organizations to achieve a common business objective. A consequence of this is that business process modelling and design used inside an organization have to be enhanced and extended to cope with interorganizational business particularities. Thus, methods are required to describe...

Secure knowledge management for eBusiness processes that span multiple organizations requires intraorganizational and interorganizational perspectives on security and access control issues. There is paucity in research on information assurance of distributed interorganizational eBusiness processes from a business process perspective. This paper presents a framework for secure semantic eBusiness...

AbstracL Internet-based technology, E-commerce, and the rise of networked virtual enterprises have fueled the need for interorganizational workftows. Although XML allows trading partners to exchange information, it cannot be used to coordinate activities in different organizational entities. Business-la-business processes are hindered by the lack of a common language to support collaboration. T...

This study investigates the antecedents of relationship satisfaction between B2B e-commerce trading partners. Relationship satisfaction is critical for sustaining long-term interorganizational relationships that allow for the development of interorganizational resources necessary to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Using the relational view of the firm (Dyer and Singh, 1998) as a theo...

This paper draws insights from the relational view perspective to examine effects of two postformation alliance capabilities—interorganizational coordination and communication, relation-specific investments on small- medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs') environmental innovation. Analysis time-lagged survey data a sample 223 SMEs United Arab Emirates (UAE) shows positive interactive effect interorg...

Introduction Previous research provides only partial evidence about the trends in interorganizational development and sharing of geographic information systems (GIS) and databases, the obstacles and facilitators of interorganizational activities, and the benefits derived from the joint activities. Anecdotal evidence is provided primarily through conference presentations, usually as a discussion...

Collaborative business has been increasingly developing with the environment of globalization and advanced information technologies. In a collaboration environment with multiple organizations, participants from different organizations always have different views about modeling the overall business process due to different knowledge and cultural backgrounds. Moreover, flexible support, privacy p...