show that enterprises can also be made up of parts of different companies and the structure of the enterprise is contingent upon a variety of different factors. The success of the enterprise as a collaborative venture depends on the ability of companies to intermediate their internal core competencies into other participating companies’ value streams and simultaneously outsource their own perip...

Two decades ago, the US military performed some large classified studies of the state of the manufacturing enterprise. The impetus was a by now well known problem: doing complex work in large enterprises is so heavily burdened by the machinery of running the enterprise that things cost too much (typically twice), they evolve too slowly in terms of technology and some things just cannot be done ...

Since consideration of individual customer’ demands is of increasing importance, enterprises are in need of more flexible production for highly customized products even in serial production. Hence, innovative concepts for improved information logistics are necessary for competitive manufacturing. This paper presents an approach for integrated agent-based process planning and production control ...

The notion of supply chains has been current for some time in the literature and in practice. Recently this has been extended to consider so-called extended enterprises. The paper considers extensible ontologies as a principle for integrated information and knowledge management and for knowledge sharing. Providing links between companies for the purpose of supporting extended products requires ...

For a virtual enterprise(VE) to be competitive and successful in a dynamic environment characterized by constantly changing customer demands and technological innovations, it must be capable of rapid adjustment in order to reduce the time and cost needed to deliver to the customer a quality product. The success in the agile competition naturally depends on the effective operation of the VE. Tru...

The development of international performance measures offers a way of indirectly introducing competitive pressures to infrastructure industries by comparing actual performance to international benchmarks. Efficiency measures for infrastructure services can be used by enterprise managers, government, regulators and business users to identify areas where there is potential to improve performance....

In today’s increasingly competitive business market, many large organisations have begun to research and develop flexible enterprises in order to be able to quickly respond to market opportunities. They are seeking ways to maximise the power of information assets stored across hundreds of their databases and application programs by bringing them into open interoperable environments. However, th...

Emotional language of human individuals has been studied for quite a while dealing with opinions and value judgments people have and share with others. In our work, we take a different stance and investigate whether large organizations, such as major industrial players, have and communicate emotions, as well. Such an anthropomorphic perspective has recently been advocated in management and orga...

During the organization of a conference and moreover during the conference a cooperation between different organizations is necessary to deliver optimal services for the conference participants. In the m>Forvm project we apply techniques developed for virtual enterprises in the MOVE project. m>Forvm addresses optimized communication to participants as well as to supporting organizations. The in...