Discovering patterns for inter-organizational business process collaboration

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 507-544

  Norta, Alex ^a   Grefen, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

b2b; Business process; Collaboration; e business; eSourcing; Interorganizational; Service orientation; Supply chain; Visibilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849041648     PISSN: 02188430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/s0218843007001664     Document Type: Article

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