Inter-organisational information systems (IOS) are being used within SCM to improve businesses processes and to facilitate closer working relations with business partners. However, the technologies themselves impact on this relationship as they allow various levels of information flows, communications, function integration and partner integration. The aim of this paper is to evaluate IOS develo...

OBJECTIVES In this paper, integrated care in an inter-organisational cooperative setting of in-home elderly care is studied. The aim is to explore how home care workers coordinate their daily work, identify coordination issues in situ and discuss possible actions for supporting seamless and integrated elderly care at home. METHOD The empirical findings are drawn from an ethnographic workplace...

FOOM (Formal Object-OrientedMethodology) is an information systems acquisition/development method which assists in understanding and modelling organisational and inter-organisational systems. The method promotes highly appropriate and precise requirements speci cations for both interand intra-organisational information systems. In this paper, we describe, in outline, FOOM (which has been under ...

Web Services technology is becoming the de-facto standard for integration of legacy applications within an organisation and for cross organisation enterprise application integration. Much work has gone into specifying Web Services functionality using workflow like techniques and production of software to enact such descriptions. However, most of this software relies on one central server to ena...

This paper explores challenges of the evolution of the concept of Information Systems (IS) and its implications on IS as a discipline. The concept of IS has come a long way since the first ‘computer applications’ that automated routine, repetitive tasks, up until today’s organisation-wide IS, groupware systems and Internetbased IS that mediate communications. Gradually, IS have penetrated into ...

This study examines the individual and workplace factors related to depression and stress in a large privately owned enterprise in China. The cross-sectional study design involved 13 privately owned retail enterprises in China. A self-report survey was administered to 4,847 employees aged 18-54 recruited through the management boards of the 13 enterprises. A chi-square test was used to compare ...