Growing interest on business collaboration motivates today's industries, especially small
and medium enterprises (SMEs) to establish and manage dynamic and non-hierarchical …

In order to stay competitive and avoid being smashed by large companies, small-and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need to establish and manage dynamic and non …

Increased global concerns about climate change and environmental degradation have
attracted attention to sustainable development strategies. Sustainability involves maintaining …

This article presents a methodology applicable to the formation of collaborative bill-of-
materials (C-BOM), coordinating production scheduling and monitoring operational …

The growing trend of business collaboration exerts an extra pressure on global business
communities. This collaboration can be evolved in the form of hierarchical and no …

This chapter introduces the basic understanding of an operational event in terms of
identification, prioritization and a possible resolution plan. The chapter first reviews the …

Event management in non-hierarchical networks is based on agile collaboration processes
to address events which are inevitable and more difficult to deal with in such complex type of …

This chapter presents an innovative collaborative planning (CP) approach for non‐
hierarchical production networks that enhances collaboration between partners in two …

The last decade has been characterized by times of change, including increasing levels of
globalization and competition. Collaboration allowed SMEs to respond effectively to the …

This paper presents research outcomes on formation and operation management of virtual
enterprises (VE). A VE is considered as a temporary alliance of manufacturing companies …