Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises

1. Front Matter

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2. Reference Models

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Reference Models for Virtual Enterprises

      • Martin Tølle, Peter Bernus, Johan Vesterager

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   3. Towards a Modelling Framework for Networks of SMEs

      • F. Biennier, Xavier Boucher, Abdelkader Hammami, Lucien Vincent

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

      • R. Jochem

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

      • Thomas Birkhölzer, Jürgen Vaupel

      Pages 27-34

3. VE Creation Models

   1. Front Matter

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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

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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

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   2. A Proposal on Negotiation Methodology in Virtual Enterprise

      • Toshiya Kaihara, Susumu Fujii

      Pages 125-132

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.

• B2B
• E-Business
• Workflow Management
• configuration
• distributed systems
• knowledge management
• modeling
• optimization
• organization
• tools

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

  Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

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