Designing value-based inter-organizational controls using patterns

Abstract

Networked organizations, consisting of enterprises who exchange things of economic value with each other, often have participants who commit a fraud or perform other actions, not agreed in a contract. To explore such opportunistic behavior, and to design solutions to mitigate it, we propose the e3 control approach. This approach takes the valuable objects, which are exchanged between enterprises, as a point of departure, and proposes a control patterns library to find solutions for various types of opportunistic behavior in network organizations. The practical use of the patterns is illustrated by a case study in the field of renewable electricity supply in UK. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.