A well-functioning Knowledge Management is a competitive advantage for enterprises that act in co-operative and distributed networks with knowledge intensive production processes. A Knowledge Management approach that integrates both, hard factors (e.g., Information Technology) and soft factors (e.g., cultural aspects) for distributed and dynamic entrepreneurial (inter-organisational) networks i...

Inter-organisational applications require improved support from middleware services. This paper analyses the management requirements of multidomain applications, covering both technological domains and organisations (administrative business domains). The analysis leads to a suggested middleware solution for these needs, presenting a group of cooperative, pervasive management services that use a...

Implementing an effective inter-organizational system (IOS) requires significant organizational as well as technical changes. These will affect stakeholders with varying degrees of power and with varying degrees of interest in the system – yet promoters depend on them if the project is to succeed. Identifying stakeholders and understanding their attitudes enables promoters to manage implementat...

Inter-organisational knowledge sharing is affected by many influences, both internal and external to the collaborative group. This is particularly so in government-industry collaborations where there is increased external stakeholder engagement and complex socio-political issues. While there has been research on the individual and organisational influences on knowledge sharing in the inter-orga...

This paper presents a new model of intra-organisational knowledge management in terms of motility of knowledge practices. While existing conceptualisations of knowledge, such a tacit and explicit have proved a valuable lens for focusing on knowledge practices within organisations and in relatively well understood or stable contexts, this paper argues that their use may be less effective in cons...

Learning processes do not occur only within, but also between enterprises. There is, therefore, a need for inter-organizational in addition to intra-organizational knowledge management. Since much of the communication and interaction among organizations takes place on the internet, it is logical to use internet applications to support the relating knowledge management tasks. The paper derives t...

Organisations are in the midst of two significant transformations: The first is the positioning of knowledge centre stage as a valuable resource and a driver of wealth creation. The second is the impact of the Internet, leading to the evolution of business into ebusiness. Until recently these developments were considered in isolation; but there are connections, and these are becoming increasing...

As business collaboration involves multiple business processes from different participating organisations, it becomes a challenging issue to manage the complex correspondence between instances of these business processes. Yet very limited support has been provided by inter-organisational workflow research. In this paper, we develop a formal method to specify instance correspondence based on a n...