Effectiveness in the process of creating virtual organizations (VO) is an important pre-
condition for having a truly dynamic VOs, in response to collaboration opportunities in fast …

Nowadays, business supply chains for the production of complex products or services are
likely to involve a number of autonomous organizations. The competitive market requires …

Purpose–The emergence of new manufacturing technologies, spurred by intense
competition, will lead to dramatically new products and processes. New management …

Agent technology has generated lots of excitement in the past decade. Currently, multi-agent
systems (MAS) composed of autonomous agents representing individuals or organizations …

In this paper, which is exploratory in nature, we introduce how to use Dynamic Electronic
Institutions to enable Digital Business Ecosystems. A Digital Business Ecosystem is an …

In the current economic turbulence, it is crucial for companies and organizations to attain
strategic alliances to respond to new business or collaboration opportunities. Besides the …

In the actual market conditions, where it is essential to rapidly respond to business
opportunities that might emerge, the concept of virtual organisation (VO) appears particularly …

Operations management deals with the design and management of products, processes,
services and supply chains. Supply chains integration and manufacturing operations …

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) face new challenges in the global market as
customers require more complete and flexible solutions and continue to drastically reduce …

The establishment of collaboration commitments, represented by contracts or agreements, is
a crucial step in a virtual organization (VO) creation process. The contract negotiation shall …