People increasingly use social networks to manage various aspects of their lives such as
communication, collaboration, and information sharing. A user's network of friends may offer …

We investigate stakeholder relationship management and identify challenges that impact
relationships at the healthcare process level using the inductive research approach. We …

The objective of this study was to investigate whether formal and relational mechanisms of
network governance act as substitutes or are complementary in their relationship with trust in …

In order to design a system for managing performance in collaborative project-based
enterprises, it is necessary to undertake real-time monitoring of its business processes and …

The concept of an ecosystem has raised interest in many areas of research over the
decades. There is a growing need to model and guide the operations, not just in single …

Collaborations in a global environment have become a defacto requirement for most large
organisations. Alliances are formed among organisations to exploit joint capabilities for the …

The field of management research has an utilisation problem. A considerable avenue in
which the translation from theory to practice has been only partial is the management control …

The rise of outsourcing has revised inter-organizational relationships in conventional
manufacturing industries. Transaction-oriented exchanges have been superseded by …

In this chapter we propose novel socially-based models for the composition of Professional
Virtual Communities (PVC). We focus on the notion of brokers who act as intermediaries …