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Finding Our Future: A Research Agenda for the Research Enterprise



Chapter 3. Responding to the Challenges: A Thematic Research Agenda

Key research questions

  • What is the nature of work conducted by the various individual stakeholders within the grants-supported research enterprise and what are the most effective ways to model and analyze these work processes?
  • How does this work change when conducted in an interorganizational arena?
  • How can modeling tools capture sophisticated interorganizational group processes?
  • Can complex organizational and interorganizational policies be adequately described and used effectively within workflow systems?
  • How can workflow technologies support dynamic workflow changes?
  • What technical architectures support collaboration and what applications are needed to integrate workflow across interacting, but separate, organizations?