This paper analyzes the necessary considerations to apply the concept “stakeholder” when developing information systems in environments where diverse organizations interact through new structures, called Interorganizational Networks. The key role played by stakeholders in the Interorganizational Information Systems development is also analyzed, explaining the different types that can exist in t...

Using a ‘process’ based conception of absorptive capacity, this paper reports the findings from an ethnography of organizational learning conducted within the marketing department of the UK’s postal provider, Royal Mail. Through vignettes of two contrasting marketing projects undertaken in conjunction with external partners, the results show that interorganizational learning is supported by inf...

Interorganizational business process reengineering is a logical extension of discussions in the 1980s of the potential for interorganizational systems to fundamentally redefine relationships between buyers and sellers and even competitors within an industry context. This paper presents a framework or model describing the relationship between technological and process innovations, and describes ...

I treat the dynamics of interorganizational collaboration from a dialogue perspective. This extends the ‘exploitative’ and ‘explorative’ approaches that currently define scholarship on interorganizational collaboration. A dialogue perspective is argued to be particularly useful in understanding interorganizational efforts to tackle systemic issues that are technically as well as behavio...

I treat the dynamics of interorganizational collaboration from a dialogue perspective. This extends the ‘exploitative’ and ‘explorative’ approaches that currently define scholarship on interorganizational collaboration. A dialogue perspective is argued to be particularly useful in understanding interorganizational efforts to tackle systemic issues that are technically as well as behaviorally co...

Volume of commerce through web-enabled interorganizational systems like electronic-exchanges has steadily risen over the past years. However, universal acceptance and success of this phenomenon has not materialized. Many exchanges have suffered participation problems and many models have fallen out of favor. We argue that it is important to relate the characteristics of existing inter-firm-rela...

Appeared in Journal of Global Information Management, vol. 9, no. 3, 2001. Reprinted by permission. This article reviews and contrasts the experiences of two major companies in attempting significant change projects incorporating information and communication technologies. It does so by utilizing and critiquing the MIT “Management in the 1990’s” model and by reflecting on socio-technical approa...