Adaptive Technologies and Business Integration: Social, Managerial and Organizational Dimensions

Adaptive Technologies and Business Integration: Social, Managerial and Organizational Dimensions provides an authoritative review of both intra-organizational and inter-organizational aspects in business integration, including: managerial and organizational integration, social integration, and technology integration, along with the resources to accomplish this competitive advantage. This Premier Reference Source contains the most comprehensive knowledge on business integration. It provides an all-encompassing perspective on the importance of business integration in the emerging networked, extended, and collaborative organizational models. The innovative research contained in this reference work make it an essential addition to every library.

Dr. Maria Manuela Cunha is currently an associate professor in the Higher School of Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal. She holds a Dipl.Eng. in Informatics and Systems Engineering, an MSci. in the field of Information Society and a DrSci in the field of Virtual Enterprises, all from the University of Minho, Portugal. She coordinates the scientific domain of Organizations and Information Systems in the Department of Information Systems and Technologies, and teaches subjects related with information systems and technologies, software engineering, and organizational models. Dr. Cunha supervises several Ph.D. projects in the domain of virtual enterprises. Her scientific and engineering interests are electronic business, agile and virtual enterprises, and information systems. She regularly publishes and participates on international scientific conferences, serves on the editorial board for several international journals, and has served on several scientific committees of international conferences. Bruno Conceição Cortes is currently a senior software developer for Business Objects, one of the worlds leading companies in business intelligence solutions. Until recently, he lectured in the Higher School of Technology at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal, where he was the coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence Area and the responsible teacher for courses on databases, advanced databases programming, and decision support systems. He holds a Dipl. Eng. in Informatics and Systems Engineering, with specialization in Systems Analysis and Software Specification, an M.Sci. in Informatics and Computer Science, with specialization in Distributed Systems, Computers Communication and Computers Architecture, all from the University of Minho, Portugal. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence). He was project leader in several projects on business intelligence, enterprise information systems, da