In the current environment, rapid innovation has become an essential source of time-based competitive advantage. Based on theory organizational information processing, this work explores effects virtual integration product speed in a environment. Samples Chinese manufacturing enterprises provide evidence study. The results show that different degrees vary. Among them, sharing plays active role ...

In international trade, there are a number of aspects that influence the interactive relationships between business organizations and governmental organizations, which makes it difficult to regulate the business processes in an integrated way. Modeling such kinds of organizational interactions requires a mechanism to differentiate interactive environments and elaborate regulations according to ...

As much of nonprofit management research on inter-organizational collaboration has focused various macro and meso aspects collaboration, little is known about micro such as the attitudes individuals involved in collaboration. To contribute to a more holistic multidisciplinary understanding this study draws upon social psychological theories attitude structure attitudinal ambivalence explore var...

Article history: Received 7 March 2014 Received in revised form 9 January 2015 Accepted 12 March 2015 Available online 3 April 2015 Both intra-regional and inter-regional research collaborations are significant determinants for regional innovation. However, systematic and empirical studies have seldom been reported integrating both of them. The present study advances a research agenda around a ...

Semantic systems that are based on ontologies are required to facilitate the collaboration between project teams and stakeholders in the infrastructure and construction domain. However, since no one ontology will be universally accepted, techniques are needed to achieve interoperability between different ontologies. This paper proposes an approach based on formal concept analysis (FCA) and rela...

Inter-organizational problem solving of emergencies and extreme events are complex research fields where scarce experimental data is available. To address this problem, the Inter-GAP In Vivo System, was developed to run behavioural experiments of complex crisis. The system design and testing included three categories of participants: for pilot testing, first year university students; for theore...

In the area of business-to-business (B2B) collaboration, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are confronted with the problem of spending a considerable time and effort on coordinating suppliers across multiple tiers of their supply chain. In tightly integrated supply chains the failure of providing services and goods on time leads to interruptions of the overall production and subsequently ...