Chapter 3. Responding to the Challenges: A Thematic Research Agenda
Key research questions
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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?
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How does this work change when conducted in an interorganizational arena?
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How can modeling tools capture sophisticated interorganizational group processes?
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Can complex organizational and interorganizational policies be adequately described and used effectively within workflow systems?
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How can workflow technologies support dynamic workflow changes?
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What technical architectures support collaboration and what applications are needed to integrate workflow across interacting, but separate, organizations?