An inclusive and extensible architecture for electronic brokerage
Decision Support Systems - Special issue for business to business electronic commerce, issues and solutions
Towards focused markets of resources for agile virtual enterprise integration
Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5.3 Forth IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems in Manufacture and Transportation: Advanced Network Enterprises, Virtual Organizations, Balanced Automation, and Systems Integration
PRO-VE '02 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5.5 Third Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises: Collaborative Business Ecosystems and Virtual Enterprises
An Electronic Market Architecture for the Formation of Virtual Enterprises
PRO-VE '99 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 WG5.3 / PRODNET Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises: Networking Industrial Enterprises
The Virtual Enterprise Concept
PRO-VE '99 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 WG5.3 / PRODNET Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises: Networking Industrial Enterprises
Concept Integration Precedes Enterprise Integration
HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 9 - Volume 9
Part I - Towards an OPIM system: manufacturing SME organisation for the future
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
The evolution of value networks
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Steering dynamic collaborations between business processes
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
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Today, competitive pressures require companies to be very fast in introducing new products, to have short production lead times to manufacture and deliver products to customers and to be permanently aligned with the market. Product life-cycles tend to shorten. Even the dynamically reconfigurable global networked structures corresponding to the recent approach of the Agile/Virtual Enterprise (A/VE) organisational model tend to last a shorter time while becoming more dynamic in their structural reconfiguration. The ability of fast reconfigurability is a requirement that the enterprises corresponding to this A/VE model must satisfy to assure a permanent alignment of the network with the market as highlighted in the paper. However, two factors against networking and dynamics are identified: leakage of firm's private knowledge and reconfiguration costs. The paper defines and discusses the main concepts and features concerning reconfiguration dynamics to help quantify, analyse and manage reconfigurability dynamics. Two reconfigurability hypotheses are also proposed and validated.