Integrating boundary spanning and organizational identification theories, we posit that a spanner’s (i.e., the sense of oneness with an organization) is important factor shaping inter-organizational relationships. We examined CEOs international joint ventures (IJVs) as spanners in Asia Pacific region by sampling 185 China-based IJVs. found IJV’s CEO parent firm positively related to cooperation...

Today business registries are regarded as means of finding services offered by a business partner. However, business registries might also serve as means of seaching inter-organizational business process definitions that are relevant in one’s own business environment. Thus, it is important to define in which environments an inter-organizational business process definition is valid. Furthermore,...

The providers of IT services are under constant pressure to reduce cost and improve the quality of the services they provide. Customers and service providers have the choice of which internal service delivery team or external service provider they assign to parts of a service process. The delivery of a service is therefore the responsibility of more than one provider's organization. These proce...

Recent developments in information and communication technology (ICT) have facilitated integration along supply chains. Besides technological advancement and governmental support, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) still face significant challenges when integrating into global supply chains. In a study of SMEs operating in an international wine supply chain that spans Northern, Central, ...

Information is the most valuable resource for coping and recovery work in crisis management. It is the foundation for coordination, collaboration and decision-making. However, several challenges face information retrieval, evaluation and exchange processes in inter-organizational crisis management. On the one hand, due to the dynamic nature of crisis situations, information demands are hardly p...

In information systems (IS) engineering different techniques for modeling inter-organizational collaborations are applied. In particular, value models estimate the profitability for involved stakeholders, whereas coordination models are used to agree upon the inter-organizational processes before implementing them. During the execution of inter-organizational collaboration, in addition, event l...

With the advent of Service Oriented Architecture organizations have experienced services as a platform-independent technology to develop and use simple internal applications or outsource activities by searching for external services, thus enabling inter-organizational interactions. In this scenario, services are units of work provided by service providers and offered to the other organizations ...

BACKGROUND Quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) continue to be widely used, yet evidence for their effectiveness is equivocal. We sought to explain what happened in Stroke 90:10, a QIC designed to improve stroke care in 24 hospitals in the North West of England. Our study drew in part on the literature on collective action and inter-organizational collaboration. This literature has been re...

Firstly considering the problems in e-government authorization model, we analyze the features of government business process. Then an innerorganization authorization model based on organization is proposed. Then based on the proposed model, an authorization model for inter-organizational business process collaboration is designed. This model can resolve the problem of separating organization an...

OpenCM is a configuration managment system that supports inter-organizational collaboration, strong content integrity checks, and fine-grain access controls through the pervasive use of cryptographic naming and signing. Released as an alpha in June 2002, OpenCM is slowly displacing CVS among projects that have high integrity requirements for their repositories. The most recent alpha version is ...