HCM - A Model Describing Cooperation of Virtual Enterprise
EDCIS '02 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems
Facilitating cross-organisational workflows with a workflow view approach
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: Contract-driven coordination and collaboration in the internet context
ICOSSSE'05 Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS/IASME international conference on System science and simulation in engineering
Measuring the performance of electronic marketplaces: An external goal approach study
Decision Support Systems
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We propose that virtual enterprises can be enabled by extending the existing, and evolving, electronic commerce (EC) infrastructure. This incremental approach to virtual enterprises, based on fairly mature technology and standard services, has the obvious advantage over entirely ad hoc solutions of reducing risks and investment costs. To support this view, we present a general multidimensional view of EC that is not restricted to conducting secure transactions over the Internet - instead, it encompasses the partner types, supply chain lengths, organizational boundaries crossed, and value as well as volume of EC transactions. We then propose a platform for virtual enterprises, highlight its key enabling technologies, and analyze how existing commercial integrated platforms for EC can be extended to support virtual business.