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Trends in Virtual Organizations and Support Infrastructures

2002

Virtual Organizations has represented a fast growing area in the last decade. However the expectations created by the early developments, hoping to resolve the main challenges in this area and the continuous emergence of new support tools, are still far from full materialization. Being a multi-disciplinary area requiring contributions of experts from the information and communications technology, organizations management, sociology, economy, law, etc., there is primarily a need for further developments in terms of modeling and better understanding of concepts, as well as interoperable infrastructures and tools.

Approaches for the management of virtual organizations: Results from ECOLEAD

IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing, 2007

A Virtual Organization (VO) consists of independent organizations collaborating for a common goal. Proper management is needed in order to achieve the objectives. The VO management has to enforce collaboration between independent partners with their own internal aims and own internal processes and management means. The paper presents results and solutions to support the management of virtual organizations in a dynamic environment.

Towards a framework for creation of dynamic virtual organizations

2005

Effectiveness of the virtual organization (VO) creation process is the base for the possibility of having truly dynamic VOs in response to collaboration opportunities. A realistic approach to materialize agility in VO creation is the assumption of a VO Breeding Environment. In this context, a discussion of the process and suggested functionalities towards a VO creation framework are presented.

Towards a foundation for virtual organizations

2003

After an initial phase in which the basic virtual organizations infrastructures and pilot cases, mostly biased by traditional business practices, were developed, there is a vital need to conduct fundamental research in order to understand the emerging behavior of new collaborative organizational forms. There is no single formal modeling tool/approach that adequately covers all perspectives yet. In this direction, a research approach to establish a sound theoretical foundation is proposed. As a starting basis, contributions from different disciplines, such as complex systems theory, game theory, etc, are suggested. Finally a roadmap for future research to understand, characterize, and better support this paradigm is briefly introduced.

Virtual organizations [guest editors' introduction]

2008

Abstract Today's organizations are no longer constrained by traditional time and place barriers. Instead, information technology supports virtual organizations: flexible networks of independent, globally distributed entities that share knowledge and resources and work toward a common goal. Resources aren't limited to computing power, but include elements as diverse as storage, network links, data sets, analysis tools, sensors, and scientific instruments.

Ecolead: A Holistic Approach to Creation and Management of Dynamic Virtual Organizations

2006

The wide dissemination and effective materialization of the foreseen benefits of dynamic virtual organizations require a holistic approach to understand, model, and develop the needed infrastructures and tools to support the full life cycle of this organizational paradigm. Under this scope, the ECOLEAD integrated project was launched with the aim of creating the necessary foundations and mechanisms for establishing an advanced network-based industry society. The main underlying concepts, approach and preliminary results of this ongoing initiative are briefly summarized.

Virtual Organizations: Trends and Models

IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing

The need to remain competitive in the open market forces companies to concentrate on their core competencies while searching for alliances when additional skills or resources are needed to fulfill business opportunities. The changing business situation of companies and customer needs have motivated researchers to introduce Virtual Organization (VO) idea. A Virtual Organization is always a form of partnership and managing partners and handling partnerships are crucial. Virtual organizations are defined as a temporary collection of enterprises that cooperate and share resources, knowledge, and competencies to better respond to business opportunities. This paper presents base concepts of virtual organizations including properties, management concepts, operational concepts, and main issues in collaboration such as security and authentication.

The Functionality of Virtual Organizations

Procceedings of T-World, 2001

The objective of this paper is to study, how well the new organizational forms called virtual organizations are functioning. The ultimate purpose is to develop a more coherent theoretical account of virtual organizations and their various forms, e.g. teams, companies and networks. The practical aim is to develop bases to analyse and model virtual organizations. In the first chapter, reasons for the emergence of virtual organisations are discussed. The second chapter deals with the background of virtual organizations, the concept 'virtual organization' is defined, and different forms of virtual organizations as objects of the study are described. The third chapter summarizes some empirical findings concerning virtual organizations including three own case studies. Advantages, disadvantages and some managerial implications are presented. And finally, questions are dealt, what to study in virtual organizations, and how to study them empirically. This review is based on selected written material and on three own case studies.

Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations

2008

Product or company names used in this set are for identification purposes only. Inclusion of the names of the products or companies does not indicate a claim of ownership by IGI Global of the trademark or registered trademark. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Encyclopedia of network and virtual organization / Goran D. Putnik and Maria Manuela Cunha, editors. p. cm. Summary: "This book documents the most relevant contributions to the introduction of networked, dynamic, agile, and virtual organizational models; definitions; taxonomies; opportunities; and reference models and architectures. It creates a repository of the main developments regarding the virtual organization, compiling definitions, characteristics, comparisons, advantages, practices, enabling technologies, and best practices"-Provided by publisher.

A framework for computer-assisted creation of dynamic virtual organisations

International Journal of Production Research, 2009

Being able to rapidly react to a collaboration opportunity (CO) in the fast changing market conditions is a key requirement for dynamic virtual organizations (VO). One way to make the process of VO creation agile is assuming a context of a virtual organizations breeding environment (VBE), which operates like an alliance of organizations, guaranteeing the preparedness of its members to engage in dynamic virtual organizations to rapidly respond to a collaboration opportunity. The process for VO creation discussed here consists in a computer assisted framework to aid organizations namely in finding suitable collaboration opportunities and characterize them; making a plan for the VO that fulfills the CO requirements; and finding the right partners to accomplish the necessary actions. All these tasks are accompanied by a negotiation process either in terms of selecting the best partners or in reaching agreements on the details of the VO.