Overview
- Presents the latest research on virtual organizations, virtual enterprises and collaborative networks
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT, volume 186)
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Conference proceedings info: PRO-VE 2005.
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Table of contents (63 papers)
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Front Matter
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Holistic Approaches to Collaborative Networks
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Collaborative Networks and Their Breeding Environments
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About this book
Progress in collaborative networks continues showing a growing number of manifestations and has led to the acceptance of Collaborative Networks (CN) as a new scientific discipline. Contributions to CN coming from multiple reference disciplines has been extensively investigated. In fact developments in CN have benefited from contributions of multiple areas, namely computer science, computer engineering, communications and networking, management, economy, social sciences, law and ethics, etc. Furthermore, some theories and paradigms defined elsewhere have been suggested by several research groups as promising tools to help define and characterize emerging collaborative organizational forms. Although still at the beginning of a long way to go, there is a growing awareness in the research and academic world, for the need to establish a stronger theoretical foundation for this new discipline and a number of recent works are contributing to this goal.
From a utilitarian perspective, agility has been pointed out as one of the most appealing characteristics of collaborative networks to face the challenges of a fast changing socio-economic context. However, during the last years it became more evident that finding the right partners and establishing the necessary preconditions for starting an effective collaboration process are both costly and time consuming activities, and therefore an inhibitor of the aimed agility. Among others, obstacles include lack of information (e.g. non-availability of catalogs with normalized profiles of organizations) and lack of preparedness of organizations to join the collaborative process. Overcoming the mismatches resulting from the heterogeneity of potential partners (e.g. differences in infrastructures, corporate culture, methods of work, and business practices) requires considerable investment. Building trust, a pre-requisite for any effective collaboration, is not straight forwardand requires time. Therefore the effective creation of truly dynamic collaborative networks requires a proper context in which potential members are prepared to rapidly get engaged in collaborative processes. The concept of breeding environment has thus emerged as an important facilitator for wider dissemination of collaborative networks and their practical materialization.
The PRO-VE'05 held in Valencia, Spain, continues the 6th event in a series of successful working conferences on virtual enterprises. This book includes selected papers from that conference and should become a valuable tool to all of those interested in the advances and challenges of collaborative networks.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Collaborative Networks and Their Breeding Environments
Book Subtitle: IFIP TC 5 WG 5.5 Sixth IFIP Working Conference on VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES, 26-28 September 2005, Valencia, Spain
Editors: Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Angel Ortiz
Series Title: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29360-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-28259-6Published: 31 August 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7349-8Published: 22 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-29360-8Published: 09 March 2006
Series ISSN: 1868-4238
Series E-ISSN: 1868-422X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 607
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Business Strategy/Leadership, e-Commerce/e-business, Management of Computing and Information Systems, Innovation/Technology Management, Models and Principles