Inter-Organizational Information Systems in the Internet Age

This book introduces the inter-organizational information system for managing inter-organizational activities of virtual organizations extended enterprises and trans-enterprise systems. This book begins with the introduction to IOIS which provide readers with a bird''s-eye view with extensive bibliographies including definitions concepts incentives for IOIS development managerial and technological issues etc. This is a collection of more than a dozen of contributed chapters by well-known authors from North America Asia Australia and Europe. The main focus of this book is to introduce the fundamental concept and technologies of IOIS a review and analysis of empirical research on IOIS adoption and diffusion a new method for IOIS research providing empirical evidence on how information systems encourage the creation of strategic networks inter-organizational information sharing systems/decision support systems and evaluation of IOIS.