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Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises

IFIP TC5 / WG5.5 Third Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE’02) May 1–3, 2002, Sesimbra, Portugal

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

    1. Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, Portugal

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Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT, volume 85)

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Table of contents (68 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Reference Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Reference Models for Virtual Enterprises

      • Martin Tølle, Peter Bernus, Johan Vesterager
      Pages 3-10

    3. Towards a Modelling Framework for Networks of SMEs

      • F. Biennier, Xavier Boucher, Abdelkader Hammami, Lucien Vincent
      Pages 11-18

    4. Enterprise Engineering — The Basis for Successful Planning of E-Business

      • R. Jochem
      Pages 19-26

    5. Handling the Complexity of IT-Environments with Enterprise Architecture

      • Thomas Birkhölzer, Jürgen Vaupel
      Pages 27-34

  3. VE Creation Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. A Dynamic Model of Virtual Organisations: Formation and Development

      • Catherine Lackenby, Hamid Seddighi
      Pages 37-44

    3. Initiation of a Globally Networked Project: A Case Study

      • Kerttuli Visuri, Marko Hakonen, Sari Kela, Sakari Pihlava, Casper Lassenius, Maria Paasivaara
      Pages 45-54

    4. In Search of the Right Partner

      • Simon Field, Yigal Hoffner
      Pages 55-62

  4. Brokerage in Virtual Enterprises

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Brokerage Function in Agile Virtual Enterprise Integration — A Literature Review

      • Paulo Ávila, Goran D. Putnik, Maria Manuela Cunha
      Pages 65-72

    3. A Framework for Broker Assisted Virtual Enterprises

      • Constantine Harbilas, Nikolaos Dragios, George Karetsos
      Pages 73-80

    4. Virtual Enterprise Broker: Processes, Methods and Tools

      • Ricardo Mejía, Arturo Molina
      Pages 81-90

  5. Contract Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Managing Contracts in Virtual Project Supply Chains

      • Heli Laurikkala, Kari Tanskanen
      Pages 93-100

    3. Managing Contractual Relationships in Virtual Organizations with Electronic Contracting

      • Daniel Burgwinkel
      Pages 101-108

    4. Contract Management in Agile Manufacturing Systems

      • José Barata, L. M. Camarinha-Matos
      Pages 109-122

  6. Negotiation and Contracting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. A Proposal on Negotiation Methodology in Virtual Enterprise

      • Toshiya Kaihara, Susumu Fujii
      Pages 125-132
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Towards collaborative business ecosystems Last decade was fertile in the emerging of new collaboration mechanisms and forms of dynamic virtual organizations, leading to the concept of dynamic business ecosystem, which is supported (or induced ?) by the progress of the ubiquitous I pervasive computing and networking. The new technologies, collaborative business models, and organizational forms supported by networking tools "invade" all traditional businesses and organizations what requires thinking in terms of whole systems, i. e. seeing each business as part of a wider economic ecosystem and environment. It is also becoming evident that the agile formation of very dynamic virtual organizations depends on the existence of a proper longer-term "embedding" or "nesting" environment (e. g. regional industry cluster), in order to guarantee certain basic requirements such as trust building ("Trusting your partner" is a gradual and long process); common interoperability, ontology, and distributed collaboration infrastructures; agreed business practices (requiring substantial engineering Ire-engineering efforts); a sense of community ("we vs. the others"), and some sense of stability (when is a dynamic state or a stationary state useful). The more frequent situation is the case in which this "nesting" environment is formed by organizations located in a common region, although geography is not a major facet when cooperation is supported by computer networks.

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  • Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, Portugal

    Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

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