Interorganizational Information Infrastructures - Structures, Practices and Development Patterns
| Topic area: | Inter-organisational information infrastructures have become the backbone of modern societies. Still we know little about their role, impact and development across different segments of society. | |
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| Team: | Stefan Schellhammer (contact person: stsc@wi.uni-muenster.de), Prof. Dr. Stefan Klein | |
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RWTH Aachen: Research Group on Electronic Business, Prof. Kai Reimers Website |
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The project is funded by the German National Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) |
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Description
The project is funded by DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - German Science Foundation) and is run in cooperation with Professor Kai Reimers, RWTH Aachen (http://www.wi.rwth-aachen.de/).
Detailed Information
Inter-organisational information infrastructures have become the backbone of modern societies. Still we know little about their role, impact and development across different segments of society. The project studies three initiatives for information infrastructure development in healthcare, electronic prescription, automatic drug dispensing and tracing & tracking in pharmaceutical supply chains. All three initiatives are not only practically relevant they also pose numerous theoretical challenges: the field is highly regulated, there are heterogeneous constellations of individual and collective actors, micro, meso, and macro level developments are interlinked. We are aiming to reconstruct the development of these initiatives in Germany and compare and contrast the findings with similar initiatives in other European countries. The research design of this exploratory project methodological covers the extension of methods such as action research and participatory observation. We aim at a theoretical foundation of the concept of information infrastructure as well as the theoretical explanation of the observed development.
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eJOV
Journal for research related to virtual organizations and networks edited by Bernhard Katzy and Stefan Klein.
