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This book focuses on virtual teams, which are fraught with cooperation problems. It offers novel insights into how team members experience and overcome these problems by empirically studying hybrid virtual teams in Shared Services Organizations.

This open access book shows the breadth and various facets of e-Science, while also illustrating their shared core. In this context, the book addresses emerging issues such as open access, collaboration and virtual communities and highlights the diverse range of developments associated with e-Science.

This open access book shows the breadth and various facets of e-Science, while also illustrating their shared core. In this context, the book addresses emerging issues such as open access, collaboration and virtual communities and highlights the diverse range of developments associated with e-Science.

In turn, real-world case studies demonstrate the practical applications in industry, administration and research.The second edition of this book has been completely revised and extended, and includes several new case studies.

Introduction.- Part I: DSR in Information Management.- Part II: DSR in Information Systems Development.- Part III: DSR in Process Management.- Part IV: DSR in Knowledge Management.- Part V: DSR in Application Domains.

Blockchain and other trustless systems have gone from being relatively obscure technologies, which were only known to a small community of computer scientists and cryptologists, to mainstream phenomena that are now considered powerful game changers for many industries.

This book highlights research that contributes to a better understanding of emerging challenges in information systems (IS) outsourcing. and how to cope with the increasing demands of internationalization and new sourcing models, such as crowdsourcing, cloud sourcing and robotic process automation.

This book features the latest research in the area of immersive technologies, presented at the 5th International Augmented and Virtual Reality Conference, held in Munich, Germany in 2019.

In a series of essays, this book describes and analyzes the concept and theory of the recent smart city phenomenon from a global perspective, with a focus on its implementation around the world.

The book describes how these reference solutions can be used in a practical context: it presents the latest insights into their development, highlights lessons learned from numerous international projects and combines them with well-founded research results in enterprise architecture management and reference modeling.

This book explores coordination within and between teams in the context of large-scale agile software development, providing readers a deeper understanding of how coordinated action between teams is achieved in multiteam systems.

This book offersreaders essential orientation on cybersecurity safeguards, and first andforemost helps them find the right balance between financial expenditures andrisk mitigation. Insights into the economic aspectof the costs and benefits of cybersecurity are supplemented by established andinnovative economic indicators.

This book opens the "black box" of software sourcing by explaining how dynamic software alignment is established and how it impacts business performance outcomes.

This book examines how and why collaborative quality assurance techniques, particularly pair programming and peer code review, affect group cognition and software quality in agile software development teams.

This book presents and analyzes the concept of online brand communities, an emerging and exciting topic in marketing and eCommerce. On this basis, the book then presents a detailed analysis of online brand communities, examining the concept of virtual community with a specific focus on virtual brand communities.

This book explores how agile development practices, in particular pair programming, code review and automated testing, help software development teams to perform better.

This book provides an integrated overview of key trends in digital transformation, taking into consideration five interrelated dimensions: strategy and business models, society, organization, technology and regulation.

Taking the example of the introduction of the electronic health card (Elektronische Gesundheitskarte - eGK) technology in Germany, the book presents insights into why these programs are often lengthy, costly and have previously been met with fierce resistance from key stakeholders.

This book examines the principles of and advances in personalized task recommendation in crowdsourcing systems, with the aim of improving their overall efficiency.

This book develops, evaluates and refines a cloud service relationship theory that explains how cloud users' uncertainties arise in these relationships and how they can be mitigated.

The introduction of Enterprise Identity Management Systems (EIdMS) in organizations even beyond the purely technological level is a costly and challenging endeavor. To this regard, the focus is put on the general nature of EIdMS projects and the constructs being relevant for analyzing such projects in the decision support phase.

This book is about the challenges and benefits of managing the increasingly sophisticated and time-sensitive supply chain operations of modern industrial enterprises with the help of computer-based information systems.

This book covers the multi-disciplinary nature of process management. It develops a methodology that supports the work of a process management team and provides a tutorial to implement the use of the methodology in healthcare and business case studies.

This book features both cutting-edge contributions on managing knowledge in transformational contexts and a selection of real-world case studies.

It addresses a wide range of cross-cutting activities, such as efficient computing, virtual reality, disruption management, big data, open science and the internet of things, and showcases how these green information & communication technologies (ICT) can be used to effectively address environmental and societal challenges.

This book addresses the issue of smart and sustainable development in the Mediterranean (MED) region, a distinct part of the world, full of challenges and risks but also opportunities.

This book examines how digital technologies enable collaboration as a way for individuals, teams and businesses to connect, create value, and harness new opportunities.

This book presents the latest findings and ongoing research in the field of green information systems as well as green information and communication technology (ICT).