The delivery of e-services across organizational boundaries poses a number of issues in terms of design of inter-organizational systems that support service delivery effectively. In this context interoperability emerges as a mandatory requirement for the design of Information Technology (IT) platforms supporting collaborative e-service environments. In this paper we address this issue by presenting a design theory for IT platforms supporting e-services based on both a deep understanding of the interoperability concept and a design research approach. Through the analysis of a cooperation framework developed in the context of an EU funded project, we instantiate the theory by providing the concrete example of a solution addressing this design problem. © 2012 Springer-Verlag GmbH Berlin Heidelberg.
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Spagnoletti, P., & Za, S. (2012). A design theory for e-service environments: The interoperability challenge. In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (Vol. 103 LNBIP, pp. 201–211). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28227-0_15
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