Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies
Communications of the ACM
The agile virtual enterprise: cases, metrics, tools
The agile virtual enterprise: cases, metrics, tools
CIMOSA: enterprise engineering and integration
Computers in Industry - CIMOSA: CIM open systems architecture evolution and applications in enterprise engineering and integration
Reference architecture for enterprise intergration
Journal of Systems and Software
Virtual Organization: Toward a Theory of Societal Transformation Stimulated by Information Technology
Elements of a base VE infrastructure
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Virtual enterprise management
Reference models supporting enterprise networks and virtual enterprises
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Handbook on Enterprise Architecture
Handbook on Enterprise Architecture
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Classic perspectives on virtual organisations are based on a technical systems understanding and thus offer an undersocialised perspective on the action and performance of these organisations. This article examines three classic perspectives and introduces the social network perspective for the analysis and management of virtual organisations. It particularly examines how the social structure of interorganisational relationships may enable and constrain the formation of and cooperation in virtual organisations. The article hereby aims to propose a more balanced sociotechnical understanding of virtual organisations. For the study of virtual organisations, the social network perspective introduces concepts describing the quality and structure of interorganisational relationships, and the conceptualisation of social capital and trust. The social network perspective suggests that managers focus on relationship management.