A Systematic Literature Review to Understand Cross-organizational Relationship Management and Collaboration

An increasingly dynamic, unpredictable and challenging environment leads organizations to cross their own borders and establish partnerships to other organizations for remaining competitive. This cross-organizational relationship allows participating organizations to share resources with each other and collaborate to better handle an identified opportunity for joint work. However, besides having a mutual or compatible goal, it is common that these organizations face several challenges during the partnership. The present research aims to explore the cross-organizational relationship management. To this end, this paper outlines the systematic literature review performed to understand the collaboration and relationship establishment between different organizations and organize an ICT related body of knowledge about the topic. A discussion about the findings, challenges and open issues identified from the retrieved literature is also provided to guide further work

Modeling of Evolution and Sustainability of Rational Trust in Dynamic VOs

Part 18: Risks and TrustInternational audienceModeling of trust sustainability and evolution among partners of a dynamic Virtual Organizations (VO) whose collaboration is already established, poses high challenge to such virtual co-working environment. Research in VOs has not established suitable modeling approaches for analyzing evolution and sustainability of rational trust and related assessment mechanisms for the collaboration which is already in progress. This is very necessary as it has now been proved that the base trust level acquired by VO partners during the VO formation is not static and cannot to remain constant over entire period of collaborative business execution. Thus proper modeling and analysis approaches for measuring the continuous changing of trustworthiness of organization need to be developed. This paper proposes approaches and mechanisms for modeling and assessment mechanism for supporting inter-organizational trust sustainability and evolution