Prescriptive workflow design for collaboration-intensive processes using the collaboration engineering approach

Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 11-20

  Deokar, Amit V ^a   Kolfschoten, Gwendolyn L ^b   De Vreede, Gert Jan ^c  

^a DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Collaboration engineering; Flexibility; Process design; Thinklet; Workflow

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649109033     PISSN: 09722696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03396547     Document Type: Article

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