Inter-organisational workflow (IOW) is a natural scenario for MAS (multiagent system) technologies. In particular, MAS coordination infrastructures can work as a general-purpose support for WfMSs (workflow management systems): coordination artifacts can be specialised as workflow engines, encapsulating workflow rules expressed in terms of coordination laws. A network of inter-connected coordina...

Background Systemic and structural issues of rapid response system (RRS) models can hinder implementation. This study sought to understand the ways in which acute care clinicians (physicians and nurses) experience and negotiate care for deteriorating patients within the RRS.   Methods Physicians and nurses working within an Australian academic health centre within a jurisdictional-based model o...

This paper presents a model for describing inter-organizational collaborations for e-commerce, e-government and e-business applications. The model, referred to as a community model, takes into account internal organizational rules and business policies as typically stated in business contracts that govern cross-collaborations. The model can support the development of a new generation of contrac...

This study aimed to assess the predictors of knowledge workers’ attitudes toward an interorganisational knowledge sharing system (IOKSS) in horizontally-linked organisations in the education sector. Though IOKSS may encounter several organisational and individual challenges, their deployment in knowledge-intensive sectors can be valuable, if not crucial, to effective social and economic develop...

Inter-organisational cooperation holds a huge potential for exploiting opportunities of dynamical, globalised markets – especially for SMEs. Furthermore, today’s ICT potentially allows for quick exchange of information and for coordinating activities. However, state of the art software architectures and technologies also hamper cross-organisational interoperability. A technologically determined...

The study reported in this paper examines the inter-relationships between organisational roles during the process of sustaining the diffusion of e-learning innovations in higher education teaching practice. Through this process, new ways of teaching and learning with digital technologies become adopted by a mainstream group of academics in similar university teaching roles. Unlike top-down impl...

There has been an increasing interest in the use of inter-organisational groups to address regional implications in sustainable development. These groups bring together local knowledge and expertise and span boundaries between government and industry organisations. Our focus is in understanding how knowledge is shared in such inter-organisational groups. Utilising interviews, observations and s...

In network organisations and electronic commerce control mechanisms to guarantee inter-organisational contract compliance are important tools to enhance trust in a fair business transaction. We propose the e-value/control design methodology for designing controls for network organisations. The e-value/control design methodology is an extension of the e-value design methodology for business mode...

With the increasing differentiation of organisations involved in the pursuit of public health, there is also a growing need for inter-organisational integration. Starting from the concepts of differentiation and integration, this article is attempting a theoretical reconstruction based on published research on inter-organisational integration in public health and related welfare services. Diffe...

The SEWASIE project within the Semantic Web Action Line of the European IST Programme focuses on the question how to assist networks of small and medium enterprises (so-called Integrated Economies) in enhancing their intra-and inter-organisational information management capabilities. While the project also includes novel techniques for semantic enrichment, query management, and presentation tec...