Peter Rittgen

Consensus is an important measure for the success of any business process modeling effort. Although intensively studied in the general literature on group processes, consensus...

The authors study collaborative modeling by analyzing conversations and loud thinking during modeling sessions and the resulting models themselves. They identify the basic...

The collaborative design of business and information systems touches a number of issues that lie within the realm of different research areas. It deals with design as such and in...

The International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence (IJDLDC) creates and develops a common framework for the analysis of computer proficiency and digital...

Collaborative business and information systems design touches a number of issues that lie within the realm of different research areas. It deals with design as such, and in...

In the area of business processes, modeling is usually a collaborative activity. In it, stakeholders analyze or design business processes; however, one of the challenges is that...

Economic activities within and between networked organizations can be coordinated via hierarchies (internal coordination) or markets (external coordination). There are theories...

The effective use of information and communication technology, or ICT (Barua, Kriebel, & Mukhopadhyay, 1995; Burn & Szeto, 2000; Mahmood & Mann, 2005; Mukhopadhyay, Kekre, &...

The first approaches to object-oriented modeling appeared already in the second half of the 1970s, but not much happened for more than a decade so there were still barely more...

The increasing complexity of products and services encourages more and more companies to form collaborative networks. As these companies are independent organizations there often...

The main purpose of a corporate information system is the support of the company’s business processes. The development of information systems is therefore typically preceded by...

Setting up co-design processes involving several stakeholders is a complex task. In this chapter the authors have looked upon experiences from involving 120 future users in a...

We claim that a general conceptual framework for the IS field should provide some kind of common upper-level ontology to describe and explain artifact- mediated social...

Collaborative business and information systems design touches a number of issues that lie within the realm of different research areas. It deals with design as such, and in...

Ontologies form an indispensable basis for modeling and engineering languages for business enterprise and information systems: fostering a need for the integration of structural...

Economic activities within and between networked organizations can be coordinated via hierarchies (internal coordination) or markets (external coordination). There are theories...

We claim that a general conceptual framework for the IS field should provide some kind of common upper-level ontology to describe and explain artifact-mediated social...

Enterprise Modeling and Computing with UML bridges two fields that are closely related, but are often studied in isolation: enterprise modeling and information systems modeling....

The Language-Action Perspective provides a communicative view on the organization. In it an organization is characterized as a system of interacting agents. This view is helpful...

When organizations engage in close cooperation they usually need to reorganize the business processes that serve the interface between them. This reorganization is often done...

The first approaches to object-oriented modeling appeared by the second half of the 1970s, but not much happened for more than a decade, so there were still barely more than a...