Collaborative business process engineering and global organizations : frameworks for service integration / Bhuvan Unhelkar, Abbass Ghanbary, Houman Younessi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book is about achieving organizational synergy in an era of business which is rapidly moving towards electronic collaboration, providing clear definition of the next phase of this collaborative evolution of the Internet"--Provided by publisher.

Ch. 1. Fundamentals of Collaborative Business -- Ch. 2. Emerging Technologies for Business Collaboration -- Ch. 3. Global Collaborative Business -- Ch. 4. Collaborative Business Process Engineering (CBPE) Model -- Ch. 5. Advanced Technologies and Architecture for Collaborative Business -- Ch. 6. Collaborative Web Based System (CWBS) -- Ch. 7. Organizational Structure and Technology Adaptation -- Ch. 8. Quality Assurance of the Collaborative Web Based System -- Ch. 9. Socio-Cultural Factors and Collaboration -- Ch. 10. Change Management in Collaboration -- Ch. 11. Case Study 1: A Security Organization (Medium Size Organization) -- Ch. 12. Case Study 2: An Energy Provider Organization (Large Organization).