Cooperative Enterprise and Organization Theory

Changes in a Service Oriented Enterprise: A Game Theory Approach

Service Oriented Enterprises (SOEs) are subject to constant change and variation. In this paper, the changes are considered from an economic perspective based on service culture notion. Once a change is implemented, the costs of some member services may increase, whereas the costs of some other services may reduce. We construct a game theoretic model trying to capture the possible conflicting i...

A Theory of Enterprise Transformation A THEORY OF ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION

The information technology revolution has driven the pace of competition and rapid globalization. Consequently, enterprises increasingly need to consider and pursue fundamental change—transformation—to maintain or gain competitive advantage. This need raises important research issues concerning how transformation is best understood and pursued. This paper outlines a theory of enterprise transfo...

The Holonic Enterprise and Theory Emergence: On emergent features of self-organization in distributed virtual agents

In this paper we explore the holonic enterprise as an example of the phenomenon of emergence. To conduct this exploration, we describe some of the development work now being carried out in the holonic enterprise field and examine anticipated near-future outcomes of this work. We then provide a brief overview of significant achievements and innovations such as the Copernican revolution, the deve...

Studies of Bacterial Cooperative Organization

A Cooperative Enterprise Agent Based Control Architecture

The paper proposes a hierarchical, agent-based, DES supported, distributed architecture for networked organization control. Taking into account enterprise integration engineering frameworks and business process management techniques, the paper intends to apply control engineering approaches for solving some problems of coordinating networked organizations, such as performance evaluation and opt...