Companies in nowaday’s business world have started to recognize the value of Social Network Analysis not only for the discovery of interhuman relations, but also for the examination of e.g. interorganizational dependencies and collaboration patterns. However, the corresponding IT-supported analyses require a large amount of explicitly structured data, which is rarely available and costly to cre...

This paper investigates the implications of interorganizational-trust for the performance of exchange relationships and considers the role of varying antecedents of trust on this performance. It develops a theory of the relationship between exchange performance and two distinct sources of interorganizational-trust—trust arising out of past interactions or the institutional environment that exis...

Developments in information and other communication technologies have led to more insourcing and outsourcing opportunities for organizations. The traditional model of isolated IT outsourcing by a single organization is being eclipsed by a new trend of sourcing through interorganizational networks and IT-based virtual organizations. Dynamic sourcing is becoming a core characteristic of virtual o...

OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AALTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 11000, FI-00076 AALTO Author Pauli Alin Name of the dissertation Crossing organizational boundaries: Probing knowledge transformation in the context of interorganizational collaborative strategy process development Manuscript submitted 5 February 2010 Manuscript revised 26 March 2010 Date of the defence 21 May 2...

N potential benefits, such as quality of interorganizational relationships and operational and strategic gains, adoption of information technology (IT)-enabled interorganizational business process standards (IBPS) is still limited. Given that these standards are designed for interorganizational business processes, we suggest that adoption of these standards depends not only on the factors perti...

Reengineering has become synonymous with major change in organizations. This paper develops theoretical underpinnings for the concept of Interorganizational Process Reengineering (IPR), the redesign of processes across organizational boundaries, encompassing the norms and values of more than one organization. This is done by examining existing reengineering, interorganizational, and general sys...

Distributed interorganizational business processes are constituted by cooperating private processes of different partners. These private processes must be aligned to fulfill the overall goal of the (virtual) interorganizational process. Process views are considered as an excellent concept for modeling such interorganizational processes by providing a good balance between the information needs a...

ABSTRACT Purpose: This research analyzes the influence of interorganizational learning (IOL) on absorptive (Acap), potential (Pacap) and realized (Racap) capacities environment small medium enterprises (SMEs). Originality/value: The study contributed to understanding expansion IOL operationalized through elements Acap. these are fundamental for development competencies SMEs from Brazil and/or e...