As suggested by several scholars, inter-organizational collaboration is an important vehicle for innovation, but working across organizational boundaries entails great complexity. In this paper, we argue that visual facilitation may act as a catalyst of inter-organizational teamwork, leading to increased knowledge sharing quality (H1), team performance (H2) and satisfaction (H3). On the other h...

The provision of multi-organizational time-critical services requires integrated data exchange across partners, but achieving this technical goal requires sustained and comprehensive attention to inter-organizational relationships and governance mechanisms. This article first describes a general framework that captures the requirements for multi-organizational collaboration for different time-c...

In the domain of business-to-business (B2B) collaboration, companies are pursuing the objective of electronically linking their business processes for improving their supply chains. For creating such inter-organizational collaboration, intraand inter-organizational knowledge workers (IKWs) function as assisting experts. However, IKWs must not constantly ”reinvent the wheel” but should instead b...

The paper discusses the basic feedback structures underlying the dynamics of ‘soft’ variables in inter-organizational collaboration. An integrative system dynamics simulation model is used to generate insights into the dynamic processes taking place in the co-operation of two organizational entities. The model is based on a synthesis of results from different research perspectives on the variou...

One of the major challenges for the enterprise of the future is how to support inter-organizational collaborative work in a way that is efficient and responsive to environmental changes. In this paper we analyze how the introduction of key technologies for computer-mediated communication has the potential to transform organizational structures and improve productivity for inter-organizational c...