E-Business and Virtual Enterprises

E-Business and Virtual Enterprises
Author: Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0387353992

The fast progress in computer networks and their wide availability complemented with on one hand the "explosion" of the mobile computing and on the other hand the trends in the direction of ubiquitous computing, act as powerful enablers for new forms of highly dynamic collaborative organizations and emergence of new business practices. The first efforts in virtual enterprises (VE) were strongly constrained by the need to design and develop horizontal infrastructures aimed at supporting the basic collaboration needs of consortia of enterprises. Even pilot projects that were focused on specific business domains were forced to first develop some basic infrastructures before being able to develop their specific business models. Nowadays, although there is still a need to consolidate and standardize the horizontal infrastructures, the focus is more and more directed to the development of new vertical business models and the corresponding support tools. At the same time, in the earlier R&D projects, the attention was almost exclusively devoted to the operation phase of the VE life cycle, while now there are more activities addressing the creation phase, developing mechanisms to support the rapid formation of new virtual organizations for new business opportunities. In order to complete the life cycle, there is a need to also invest on support for VE dissolution.

Agent and Web Service Technologies in Virtual Enterprises

Agent and Web Service Technologies in Virtual Enterprises
Author: Protogeros, Nicolaos
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2007-07-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1599046504

Provides a comprehensive review of the most recent advances in agent and Web service technologies. Provides an integrated view of the most recent contributions that support formation, integration, collaboration, and operation in virtual enterprise. Presents examples of applications of these technologies throughout various aspects of the virtual enterprise life cycle.

Towards the E-Society

Towards the E-Society
Author: Beat Schmid
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 841
Release: 2008-11-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0306470098

I3E 2001 is the first in a series of conferences on e-commerce, e-business, and- government organised by the three IFIP committees TC6, TC8, and TC11. It provides a forum, where users, engineers, and scientists from academia, industry, and government can present their latest findings in e-commerce, e-business, and- government applications and the underlying technology to support those applications. The conference comprises a main track and mini tracks dedicated to special topics. The papers presented in the main track were rigorously refereed and selected by the International Programme Committee of the conference. Thematically they were grouped in the following sessions: – Sessions on security and trust, comprising nine papers referring to both trust and security in general as well as presenting specific concepts for enhancing trust in the digital society. – Session on inter-organisational transactions, covering papers related to auditing of inter-organizational trade procedures, cross-organizational workflow and transactions in Business to Business platforms. – Session on virtual enterprises, encompassing papers describing innovative approaches for creating virtual enterprises as well as describing examples of virtual enterprises in specific industries. – Session on online communities containing three papers, which provide case studies of specific online communities and various concepts on how companies can build and harness the potential of online communities. – Sessions on strategies and business models with papers describing specific business models as well as general overviews of specific approaches for E- Strategy formulation.

Agile Virtual Enterprises: Implementation and Management Support

Agile Virtual Enterprises: Implementation and Management Support
Author: Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2006-05-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1599040123

"The authors address Agile/Virtual Enterprises as a new organizational paradigm, highly dynamic reconfigurable agile networks of independent enterprises sharing all resources, including knowledge, market, customers, etc., and using specific organizational architectures that introduce the enterprises' true virtual environments"--Provided by publisher.

Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises

Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises
Author: Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 629
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0387355855

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.

E-business

E-business
Author: Brian Stanford-Smith
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 1164
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781586030896

How can the Internet and world wide web improve my long-term competitive advantage? This book helps answer this question by providing a better understanding of the technologies, their potential applications and the ways they can be used to add value for customers, support new strategies, and improve existing operations. It is not just about e-commerce but the broader theme of e-business which affects products, business processes, strategies, and relationships with customers, suppliers, distributors and competitors. To cover future trends, the editors have collected papers from authors operating at the frontiers of the developments so the reader can more appreciate the directions in which these technologies are heading. The resulting 165 essays have been collated into ten sections, which have been grouped in three parts: key issues, applications areas and applications, tools and technologies. A business rarely makes radical changes but is constantly making adjustments to circumstances. Businesses must now adapt to the global implications of the Internet and world wide web. This book hopes to aid awareness of the implications so that the changes are managed wisely.

Virtual Enterprise Integration: Technological and Organizational Perspectives

Virtual Enterprise Integration: Technological and Organizational Perspectives
Author: Putnik, Goran D.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2005-01-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 159140407X

Virtual Enterprise Integration: Technological and Organizational Perspectives addresses the emergent research and development issues for the most-advanced enterprise organizational paradigm of today's world - the virtual enterprise paradigm. Virtual Enterprise Integration: Technological and Organizational Perspectives integrates the contributions by renowned international researchers and scientists and is virtually the first book focusing solely on the problem of virtual enterprise integration. This book is a guide that gives readers a broader perspective of VE integration requirements and raises their awareness on which technology and how technology can serve the needs of an expanding and increasingly competitive organizational model.

E-commerce and V-business

E-commerce and V-business
Author: Stuart Barnes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0750664932

Providing material from recognised worldwide sources, this book presents the theory and evidence on electronic commerce and virtual business and examines the impact both outside and inside the business organisation.

Electronic Commerce in Small to Medium-sized Enterprises

Electronic Commerce in Small to Medium-sized Enterprises
Author: Nabeel A. Y. Al-Qirim
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781591401469

This work addresses eCommerce issues in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in a global setting. It covers issues that are of importance to researchers, students, and professionals interested in the eCommerce field in SMEs.

Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles

Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles
Author: Ponis, Stavros
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2010-03-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1615206086

"This book deals with risk management in enterprise network formations, stressing the importance of risk management in enterprises organized in networks followed by the presentation of the researcher suggested approaches which most of the time emphasizes in a supply chain"--Provided by publisher.