Academic researchers have followed closely the interest of companies in establishing
industrial networks by studying aspects such as social interaction and contractual …

Academic researchers have followed closely the interest of companies in establishing
industrial networks by studying aspects such as social interaction and contractual …

Research into Distributed Manufacturing–originally focusing on control of autonomous
production cells–has embraced over time the challenges of research into industrial networks …

Recently novel distributed approaches to the formation of collaborative networked
organizations have been proposed. Some of them make use of logical–formal structures (ie …

A Virtual Enterprise (VE) can be described as an organisational form that emerges when
individual entities form a team of partners to achieve a specific goal. The ability to assemble …

This chapter introduces the concept of virtual enterprise broker (VEB) supported by the use
of a “HUB” of integrated e-services as an enabling IT strategy to design and create smart …

Abstract Research into Distributed Manufacturing has embraced the challenges facing
industrial networks. Existing strands of research into networks often explore social-dynamic …

The concept of virtual organization (VO) represents one of the most discussed examples of
collaborative networks, which has raised considerable expectations in many application …

This article presents the authors' concept of Performance Measurement (PM) in a Virtual
Organisation (VO) based on the virtual organising process approach. This is a response to …

Strategic planning for industrial clusters differs compared to strategic planning for
corporations. Industrial clusters are characterised by the existence of non-focal …