Alliances represent a variety of governance contexts, and hence provide a rich empirical setting for studying the value-creation mechanisms of Information Technology (IT). We examine the influence of IT investment and flexible IT infrastructure, through Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), in the effect of alliance activity on firm performance. We find that the marginal contribution of each joi...

This special issue was motivated by the quality of the works presented at the conference and by the increasing proliferation of service-oriented systems in our society such as e-governance, e-health and e-commerce systems. We believe that the contributions in this volume provide a valuable example of current research in this area. We also believe that the published works will contribute to the ...

Service-oriented architectures are increasingly used in the context of business processes, but the proven practices for the integration of services and processes are not well explained so far. For the integration of services and processes many different concerns, ranging from technical to architectural to businessrelated concerns, must be considered, and combinations of these concerns that are ...

The complexity and openness of today’s modern societies result in the threat of serious cascading effects when natural disasters or terrorist attacks strike. Thus, there is a high demand for state of the art IT support in the field of emergency management systems. In this paper, we identify the core requirements of future emergency management systems and present a new generation of modular, ser...

Service-orientated architecture is a very popular approach for building large scale, modular and distributed systems as well as achieving integration in heterogeneous environments. Its acceptance in the world of business is growing over time, mainly in technologically advanced countries, but there are still research gaps regarding SOA adoption and diffusion process. Interesting research questio...

As the increasing development of application technology and infrastructure, many kinds of application can be wrapped to standard web service, and tasks can be partitioned and mapped to service instances according to web service architecture. Service-oriented architecture is an approach to define integration architectures based on the concept of a service. We believe service-oriented application...

Public administrations are providing citizens with online services. Organizations that have implemented governance based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), with a certain degree of maturity, must incorporate software development methodologies that enhance working with services in the early stages of Web development that means, during Requirements and Analysis phases. The use of Model-drive...