Regardless of the type of crisis and its complexity as well as the difference of culture, objectives and priorities of the multitude organizations involved, emergency response requires effective communication in order to achieve situational awareness within inter-organizational collaboration, make decision and achieve their own objectives. However, actors are challenged by several problems. Amo...

The increase of joint ventures and cooperations in general has transformed the classical “make or buy” into “make or cooperate”. Especially the role of information is a major challenge. To unleash the potential of information-based cooperation social, professional and technical aspects have to be considered. This article presents a conceptual model for information sharing and governance between...

Based on recent field survey data collected in three African countries, this study examines interfirm and inter-organizational collaboration in African industry. Three sets of interactions were analyzed namely: firm-firm linkages, including user-supplier and subcontracting relationships; firm-university linkages; and firm-industrial association linkages. Employing univariate and multivariate an...

background the current literature proposing criteria and guidelines for collaborative health system research often fails to differentiate between: (a) various types of partnerships, (b) collaborations formed for the specific purpose of developing a research proposal and those based on long-standing relationships, (c) researcher vs. decision-maker initiatives, and (d) the underlying drivers for ...

As software development becomes more collaborative, business and technical processes of software engineering and their management need to accommodate and support collaboration. In this paper we briefly survey key concerns, known challenges, and potential alternative solutions. We draw on lessons learned from software process models, organizational behaviour and knowledge management and their re...

As Mickey Rooney so famously said, " Let's all get together and put on a show. " The idea of people and groups working together to achieve a shared objective is not new; the pirates of the Caribbean, the builders of the transcontinental railway and the Allies of World War II were " collaborating " (although obviously not with each other) long before that term became part of our organizational l...

In recent years, due to the high-frequency growth and increasing cross-border nature of all kinds emergency events, which has made management ability a single organization in face emergencies is not so prominent. How strengthen cooperation different organizations become major problem be solved by governments at levels. Many scholars various fields have also carried out variety theoretical resea...