1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996465630403316

Autore

Schäl Thomas <1962->

Titolo

Workflow management systems for process organisations / / Thomas Schäl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Heidelberg : , : Springer, , 1996

ISBN

3-662-21574-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 1996.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 208 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; ; 1096

Disciplina

658.51

Soggetti

Workflow - Management

Reengineering (Management)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

As the business environment has become more and more turbulent over the past decade, information technology has begun to run into the danger of becoming an impediment rather than a motor of progress. In order to deal with the need for rapid, continuous change, computer science is challenged to develop novel interrelated information and communication technologies, and to align them with the social needs of co-operating user groups, as well as the management requirements of formal organisations. Workflow systems are among the most advertised technologies addressing this trend, but they mean different things to different people. Computer scientists understand workflows as a way to extract control from application programs, thus making them more flexible. Bureaucratic organisations (and most commercial products) perceive them as supporting a linear or branching flow of documents from one workplace to another - the next try after the failure cf office automation. This book takes another perspective, that of the modem customer-driven and groupwork-oriented process organisation. Extending the language-action perspective from the CSCW field, its customer-oriented view of workflows enables novel kinds of business process analysis, and leads to interesting new combinations of information and co-operation technologies. Schal's empirical studies show some of the pitfalls resulting from a naive use



of these technologies, and exemplify ways to get around these pitfalls.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910338030003321

Autore

Heims Eva

Titolo

Building EU Regulatory Capacity : The Work of Under-Resourced Agencies in the European Union / / by Eva Heims

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783319975771

3319975773

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 pages)

Collana

Executive Politics and Governance, , 2946-3688

Disciplina

342.2406

Soggetti

Political planning

Europe - Politics and government

Executive power

Political science

Comparative government

Public Policy

European Politics

Executive Politics

Governance and Government

Comparative Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Regulatory Capacity Building -- 2. An Organisational Perspective on Regulatory Capacity Building in the EU -- 3. Building EU Capacity to Monitor the Safety of Drugs -- 4. Building EU Maritime Safety Regulatory Capacity -- 5. Food Safety: Building EU Regulatory Capacity through the Backdoor -- 6. Building an Integrated Banking Market while Containing Cross-Border Risks -- 7. The Future of Regulatory Capacity Building in the EU.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines regulatory capacity beyond the nation state. It



suggests that we can only understand why EU agencies are able to build EU regulatory capacity if we acknowledge that national regulators provide their expertise, staff and resources to the regulatory processes taking place in these EU bodies. This raises the puzzle of why national regulators are willing to provide 'life support' to potentially rival organisations. The book is devoted to answering this question in order to understand how EU regulatory capacity is created in the absence of a full supranational regulatory bureaucracy. To do so, the book studies to what extent national regulators from two countries (the UK and Germany) support EU agencies in their work across four policy sectors (drug safety, food safety, maritime safety and banking supervision). The book makes a significant contribution by developing a bureaucratic politics perspective that highlights the importance of national regulators for EU regulatorycapacity building. Eva Heims is Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of York, UK. She is also a research associate at the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation, LSE, UK. Dr Heims' research in the field of public policy and administration focuses on the politics of (transnational) regulation.