Business processes models and methodologies are effectively adopted by business process engineer, organization experts and bureaucrats, to describe important aspects peculiar of many modern organizations (banks, government, utilities and, generally, service organizations). The expressive power of these models is desirable to design and deliver Web Applications and Web-enabled services for these...

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...

It has been known for some time that organizations are investing in IT to achieve competitive advantage as well as profit. They have realized that by only investing in IT applications they cannot attain sustainable competitive advantage [TaKr03]. However, to obtain that advantage they need to utilise IT functionality on a continuous basis [HeVe99]. In order to do so IT needs to align with busin...

With the economy still unsettled, IT continues to be quite resilient. IT budgets, hiring, and salaries are rising closer to levels that preceded the recession. Nevertheless, the skies still haven’t completely cleared and the economy continues to pose new challenges to organizations, and to cause some shifts in IT priorities. The data suggests that IT organizations are working aggressively and c...

Networked environments which provide platforms for business organizations are configured in different forms depending on many factors including life time, member characteristics, communication structure, and business objectives, among others. With continuing advances in digital technologies the distance has become a less barrier for business minded collaboration among organizations. With the ne...

While in theory what an organization knows is fundamental to its success, in practice only a few companies have seen significant business results from their knowledge management (KM) initiatives. Therefore, many knowledge managers are rethinking how and where knowledge really adds value. Connecting knowledge activities to core business processes is slowly coming to be recognized as a second, an...

Since the economic crisis in 2008, world has seen a partly negative shift social progress, highlighting that current models and practices do not guarantee long-lasting societal human wellbeing. Economic business are deeply intertwined; thus, businesses play major role advancement of sustainability, academic research can offer support navigating complexity this issue. However, sustainability ten...