Introduction Process Views on Inter-organizational Collaborations; Hans Berends and Jörg Sydow Part I. Relational Dynamics in Inter-organizational Collaboration Chapter 1. Relational Bonds Underlying Cooperative Inter-Organizational Relations in Different Societal Contexts; Peter Smith Ring and...

The purpose of this volume is to produce a collection of articles by leading social psychologists and organizational scholars that focus on legitimacy processes in organizations. Over the last two decades in social psychology within sociology, scholars have developed legitimacy theories that...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Second IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden, during November 18-19, 2009. The conference series constitutes a dedicated forum where practice of Enterprise Modeling (EM) is...

High-Performance Process Improvement Fundamentals -- High-Performance Process Improvement Concepts -- Design Concepts of the High-Performance Process Improvement Process -- Network and Company Analysis and Synthesis -- Process Analysis and Synthesis -- The Implementation -- Derivative Concepts...

Strategic Alignment -- Delivering Business Strategy Through Process Management -- Management of Process Excellence -- Process Capital as Strategic Success Factor: The Lufthansa Example -- Process Classification Frameworks -- Taxonomy of Business Process Management Approaches -- Process...