This study investigates inter-organizational tensions in servitization and develops a dialectic process model to better understand the emergent nature of servitization. Inter-organizational have gained increasing attention literature recently, but their role requires further research. By combining theory ARA framework from Industrial Marketing Purchasing (IMP) tradition, we develop that identif...

Previous research indicates that the benefits of e-government initiatives are slower to realize than initially expected. This has partly been ascribed to the particularly complex settings of e-government projects, consisting of a variety of stakeholders promoting different and often conflicting objectives. Yet few studies have explicitly addressed the inherent challenges of this diversity. This...

We introduce a new information architecture that is a synthesis of an information structure, information flow (e.g. narrative), and information dialectic (its evolution). Insights from the memory mnemonic the method of loci and the philosophical process of dialectic are introduced. Three cumulative syntheses are presented: the organic architecture with (1) the hierarchical architecture with (2)...

This paper discusses how the basic notions of formal logic can be expressed in terms of argumentation and how formal classical (or deductive) reasoning can be captured as a dialectic argumentation process. Classical propositional logical entailment of a formula is understood via the wining arguments between those supporting the formula and arguments supporting its contradictory or negated formu...

Received: 24 January 2003 Revised: 28 February 2003 Accepted: 17 March 2003 Abstract This paper is a part of our attempt to build a new knowledge-based theory of the firm and organization to explain the dynamic process of knowledge creation and utilization. For this, we revisit the theory of knowledge creation through the SECI process and ba, and try to advance them further by incorporating the...

In this paper we describe and explain how and why spreadsheets are used in budgeting from a dialectic process theory perspective. It starts from the assumption that organizations in the new information age face a tension in a decision-making process between local and organizational levels. To describe this, budgeting is used to represent a decision-making process. To deal with the tension, busi...

In this paper we describe and explain how and why spreadsheets are used in budgeting from a dialectic process theory perspective. It starts from the assumption that organizations in the new information age face a tension in a decision-making process between local and organizational levels. To describe this, budgeting is used to represent a decision-making process. To deal with the tension, busi...