Since I do a lot of research I’d like to share some nice articles with you. Every week or so I’ll post a new suggestion. A lot of the articles are free available but for some you need to be at an university or pay for it, since I don’t intend to be sued 
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Here is a nice article of Cheng, Tang and Zhao about Web Services and Service-Oriented Application. Here the abstract:
As a new network computing technology, Web services help reduce application
integration cost and have become the foundation for the next generation of
service-oriented architecture. While there is ample research on the technological
issues of Web services, little has been done thus far on the business implications
of this groundbreaking technology. In this paper, we attempt to close this
research gap by comparing three application service strategies for providing Web
services of complementary functionalities, i.e., independent service vendors, joint
venture, and strategic alliance.
If you are interested in Web services and process management you should suggest getting this Journal: Decision support Systems. It’s also by Zhao and Cheng. Here is an abstract of the Magazin:
Two recent trends are reshaping the research landscape in business process management. One such trend is the adoption of process-driven application integration by major e-business middleware vendors, and the other is the advancement of web services as a universal computing platform. In this paper, we investigate the impact of web services on business process technologies and present our viewpoints on research directions in business process management in the presence of web services. Finally, we introduce the papers published in this Special Issue on Web Service and Process Management.
It was done 2004 but should give you a good start on that topic. Unfortunatly, it’s not for free.
Schlagwörter: article, book, Cheng, link, process management, SOA, Web serwices, Zhao
