The action-based model of dissonance predicts that following decisional commitment, approach-oriented motivational processes occur to assist in translating the decision into effective and unconflicted behavior. Therefore, the modulation of these approach-oriented processes should affect the degree to which individuals change their attitudes to be more consistent with the decisional commitment (...

Process-oriented systems such as scientific workflows and business processes can be designed and implemented based on advanced transaction models or other formal models for concurrent distributed systems. Advanced transactional modeling approaches trade the classic benefits of isolation and atomicity properties for long lived transactions, giving it the ability of being applicable in systems th...

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate brain activity while healthy subjects performed three different tasks, each of which alternated between: (i) phases relying on stimulus-oriented thought (i.e. cognitive processes provoked by incoming sensory information); and (ii) phases relying on stimulus-independent thought (i.e. cognitive processes that were not related to any inf...

The action-based model of dissonance predicts that following decisional commitment, approach-oriented motivational processes occur to assist in translating the decision into effective and unconflicted behavior. Therefore, the modulation of these approach-oriented processes should affect the degree to which individuals change their attitudes to be more consistent with the decisional commitment (...

Negotiation support is an important challenge for business-to-business e-commerce that is still poorly supported in current information systems. One reason is that negotiation processes are much harder to formalize than the business processes in the fulfilment phase. The goal of this paper is to provide the basis for a formal analysis of different types of electronic negotiations which can help...

In the prior studies, researchers believe that the fit between KM processes and task characteristics, or the fit between KM processes and KMS capabilities may improve KM performance. Yet little is known about how the fit among task characteristic, KM processes, and KMS capabilities impacts KM performance. This study proposes an extended model by integrating above two different research streams ...

Background: Hospital as the gravitational center of the health and treatment system and an open system involving complex processes and various (qualitative and quantitative) resources, needs an effective leadership style and an approperiate strategy to solve the organizational disagreements and conflicts in order to achieve its basic objectives. The object of this research is to study the relat...

Object-oriented processes are often touted as solutions to software development problems. The popularity of object-oriented method has generated many favorable reviews, particularly in the popular media. Object-oriented development promises to reduce the maintenance effort. However, these promises are not based on reliable experimentation. The software engineering literature does include some e...

This study proposed a KM-oriented BPR model to assist managers to implement the knowledge management in the construction firms. Two philosophies, namely the (1) Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and the (2) Knowledge Management (KM), were combined in the addressed KM-oriented BPR model to ensure the KM operations can be merged with the business processes. That is, by using the proposed model...

In order to realise the potentials of CRM, relationship-specific processes need to be designed and implemented. Yet the following questions still remain: what is the difference between relationship processes and traditional product and transaction-oriented processes and how can relationship processes be identified and designed? Based on business definitions (e.g. how can a customer relationship...