Purpose – Aims to discuss the development of workflow standards in the context of the internet. Design/methodology/approach – Outlines the history behind process interoperability standards such as Wf‐XML and BPEL4WS. Findings – Concludes that it will take a while for the dust to settle...

Purpose – This paper seeks to establish a design for cross‐organizational workflow based on logical channels of communication. A set of scenarios is established which can be used to test the effectiveness of future architectures. Design/methodology/approach – Starting with scenarios based...

Purpose – Aims to show that workflow management needs to rethink its basis of discussion in order to meet today's challenges and to provide adequate IT support for heterogeneous workflow networks. Design/methodology/approach – First, the need for flexibility in relating resources in workflow...

Purpose – Collaborative processes are relatively complex and are therefore difficult to handle. Representing the joint processes and capturing the interactions among stakeholders in a structured way are critical to improve the collaboration productivity. This paper aims to present a generic...

Purpose – In the last decade, bureaucratic organizational hierarchies have been increasingly replaced with flatter organizational forms, bringing together people from different disciplines to form project teams within and between organizations. Distributed project teams often are...