Web services and flexible business processes: Towards the adaptive enterprise

Information and Management

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 921-933

  Moitra, Deependra ^a   Ganesh, Jai ^a  

^a INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (India)

Author keywords

Business processes; Flexibility; Loose coupling; Organizational adaptation; Web services

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; HTML; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SGML; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; XML;

BUSINESS PROCESSES; FLEXIBILITY; LOOSE COUPLING; ORGANIZATIONAL ADAPTATIONS; WEB SERVICES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 23844455631     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2004.10.003     Document Type: Article

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