Web-based development of complex information products
Communications of the ACM
An interactive environment for virtual manufacturing: the virtual work bench
Computers in Industry - Special issue on multimedia in manufacturing
Leading the development and implementation of collaborative interorganizational systems
Information and Management
A Context-Aware Data Management System for Ubiquitous Computing Applications
ICDCS '03 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Web Service Gateway - A Step Forward to E-Business
ICWS '04 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services
Commercial Wireless Sensor Networks: Technical and Business Issues
WONS '05 Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services
A Framework of Context-Awareness for Ubiquitous Computing Middlewares
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science
PTT + IMS = PTM - Towards Community/Presence-based IMS Multimedia Services
ISM '05 Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia
EUC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Emerging Directions in Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
Planning to solve the “skills problem” in the virtual information management organization
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Nowadays, market environments can be expressed in terms of increased competition, the diverse demands of customers, and the rapid innovation of IT technologies and so forth. These environmental changes have left companies facing a highly competitive market, and company revenues are gradually decreasing. Virtual enterprise is considered as the one of the alternatives available to facilitate adjustment to the new digital economy and save companies from falling into a red ocean. The contents of this research include the definition of virtual enterprise, and the characteristics and technologies for embodying it in a company. The paper suggests a new flow model for a decision support system in a virtual enterprise set-up, assesses critical success factors and weights as per the factors from case studies. From the previous analysis, paper defines the needs of collaborative activities in virtual enterprise and suggests the ubiquitous virtual enterprise reference model.