Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Concept Modeling in Multidisciplinary Research Environment
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XIX
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The governance of diverse organizational information is salient for successful business. In inter-organizational environments timely, controlled and targeted sharing and exchange of business knowledge is even more critical in creating new collaborative business opportunities and benefiting from the trustworthy and efficient existing economic relationships. Especially in travel industry supply chains, information technology based solutions that support trustworthy and timely sharing of the managerial and operational business information are needed. For this reason, research that focuses on the variety of generic and domain specific phenomena that manifest in knowledge intensive business network contexts requires a suitable theoretical framework to enable the design of novel information modeling, knowledge acquisition and information system design requirements eliction methods that are applicable at business network stakeholder level. As this kind of business network study is inherently multidisciplinary, the interoperability of the individual research disciplines and therein generated artifacts should be facilitated by the iterative evolution of research field specific conceptualizations. The creation of such concept models are a gateway to depicting the relevant business information and to developing software systems that support inter-organizational collaborations. In this research a framework is presented that supports the development of theoretically produced conceptualizations, that aid in organizing and analyzing the gathered intra-and inter-organizational data that represents the static structures of organizations and dynamic network behaviors (for example, in form of application use scenarios, business rules or legal agreements). Additionally it can be used to organize these essential research constructs to be continually elaborated and enhanced and on which other theoretical, multidisciplinary and practical solutions can be founded on.