Adaptive Technologies and Business Integration: Social, Managerial and Organizational Dimensions

by Cunha, Maria Manuela; Cortes, Bruno Conceicao; Putnik, Goran D.

• ISBN13: 9781599040486
• ISBN10: 1599040484
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-31
• Publisher: Igi Global

Summary

Adaptive Technologies and Business Integration: Social, Managerial and Organizational Dimensions provides an authoritative review of both intra-organizational and inter-organizational aspects in business integration, including: managerial and organizational integration, social integration, and technology integration, along with the resources to accomplish this competitive advantage. This Premier Reference Source contains the most comprehensive knowledge on business integration. It provides an all-encompassing perspective on the importance of business integration in the emerging networked, extended, and collaborative organizational models. The innovative research contained in this reference work make it an essential addition to every library.

Table of Contents

Enterprise reconfiguration dynamics and business alignment	p. 1
Co-engineering business, information use, and operations systems for IT-enabled adaptation	p. 33
Dynamic enterprise modeling for knowledge worker industries	p. 59
Enterprise systems : innovation, development, and advantages	p. 82
Competence management for business integration	p. 104
Business integration in the insurance industry : the intermediary side of the question	p. 118
SCOntology : a formal approach toward a unified and integrated view of the supply chain	p. 137
Holistic approach to align ICT capabilities with business integration	p. 160
Managing information systems integration in corporate mergers and acquisitions	p. 174
The impact of the process integration on business management : case studies using Six Sigma methodology	p. 189
New business requirements in the knowledge-based society	p. 211
Intelligent organizations : knowledge computing management	p. 244
Integration of knowledge resources in R&D organizations : the case of Mihajlo Pupin Institute	p. 263
Business information integration from XML and relational databases sources	p. 282
Ontology mapping techniques in information integration	p. 308
Integration platform for de-centralized investment projects appraisal	p. 329
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