The ability to construct dynamic, flexible virtual organizations becomes one of the most desired features of a distributed application system. This paper proposes an agent-mediated service framework for constructing virtual organizations at the business level. Through dynamic matching between business services and Web services, and the negotiation between virtual organization agent and partners...

Many business organizations seem to be doing everything but making ethical organizational decisions these days. In stark contrast, social enterprises are organizations that operate as businesses but are altruistic, humanitarian, and seek the goal of creating social value in effective, efficient and ethical ways. This paper applies principles of social enterprises to develop a multi-perspective ...

E-business and associated technologies continue to have a major impact on the way organizations conduct business. However, in the current environment which is conducive for imitative behaviour, organizations find it increasingly difficult to create competitive advantage by simply implementing pervasive e-business solutions. In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework to assess the ability...

In the current economy, a shift can be seen from stand-alone business organizations to networks of tightly collaborating business organizations. To allow this tight collaboration, business process management in these collaborative networks is becoming increasingly important. This paper discusses automated support for this networked business process management: automated means to manage business...

Business processes enable organizations to achieve business goals. Organizations require that their business processes exchange information in a secure environment. Access control mechanisms must be incorporated into the analysis, modeling, and design of business processes to prevent unauthorized access to information resources, to provide non-repudiation mechanisms, and to allow for segregatio...

Business Process Management (BPM) importance and benefits for organizations to focus on their business processes is nowadays broadly recognized, as business and technology areas are embracing and adopting the paradigm. The Service Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm bases software development on services to realize business processes. The implementation of business processes as services helps in ...

Organizations know that information issues or problems exist, but struggle to find a clear way to get started to effectively manage this asset. Information is a business asset, and must be managed effectively. For supporting organizations towards better management of information, we propose Business Object Modeling (BOM) as a modeling approach. BOM enables companies for information management b...

Introduction: In this era of globalisation, organizations heavily depend on IT to facilitate their business operations. IT provides with numerous opportunities and improved efficiency for many modern day organizations. It also comes with its own set of security risks. The ever changing risk context of an organization, collaboration with other organizations, ecommerce clearly insists upon an eff...

The environmental impact of doing business becomes an increasingly relevant aspect for organizations, not only because of legal requirements but also because more customers care about. Most organizations, however, do not have comprehensive knowledge on how to restructure their business processes accordingly. In previous work we proposed green business process patterns that address the environme...