Sociologists frequently invoke the concept of form when analyzing organizations, collective action, art, music, culture and other phenomena. Nonetheless, the form concept has not received careful theoretical analysis, either generally or in specific context. Using the tools of formal logic, set theory, and algebra, we propose a language for defining social forms that is suÆciently general to in...

Currently, business modelling is an art, instead of a science, as no scientific method for business modelling exists. This, and the lack of using business models altogether, causes many projects to end after the pilot stage, unable to fulfil their apparent promise. We propose a structured method to create “as-is” business models in a repeatable manner. The method consists of the following steps...

Modeling inter-organizational business processes identifies the services each business partner has to provide and to consume as well as the flow of interactions between them. A model-driven approach to inter-organizational business processes allows abstracting from the underlying IT platform and, thereby, guarantees to survive changes in technology. UN/CEFACT’s Modeling Methodology (UMM), which...

From the perspective of future development trend strategic management theory, business ecosystem (BET), commercial Mode and dynamic capability enterprises are mainstream trends theory. At same time, it indicates that there some internal relations inevitable laws among them deserve scholars’ attention. The structure BET can be examined from two perspectives. According to closeness importance mem...

Bruce Thacker never took an art class. He never even took a computer class. His degree is in geology, and he fi rst bought a computer in 1990 to track stock investments. Somewhere in the convoluted melange of his linear history, he owned a contemporary art gallery, invested in stocks and real estate, owned a custom photo lab, and was a professional photographer. “Other things that I’ve never ha...

Senior executives often criticise the lack of visible returns from expensive investments in Information Technology (IT). In addition, accelerating changes in market environments demand higher business flexibility from IT services which exacerbates the difficulty of managing a return on IT-investment. This paper conducts a state-of-the-art review of methods currently in use for IT controlling, v...

Nowadays up-to date and meaningful information about business processes and business activites are foundations of a successfull and flexible business. The quicker critical situations are recognized or predicted and solved the less the negative consequences occur for the enterprises. The idea of real-time information provided for decision support has existed for several decades. Considering thos...

Rise and development of the e-Business has led to transformation of many traditional markets and born of new ones. Companies have been forced to change themselves to be more customer oriented and turn their mass production strategy to mass customization strategy. In this research we outline the development paths of forty case companies in Finnish metal and electronics industries. Objective was ...

The Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) is a graph-oriented language in which control and action nodes can be connected almost arbitrarily. It is primarily targeted at domain analysts and is supported by many modelling tools, but in its current form, it lacks the semantic precision required to capture fully executable business processes. The Business Process Execution Language for Web Se...