Supporting Coordination in Dynamic Virtual Enterprises
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Dynamic virtual enterprises (VE) involve rapid, on-demand, teaming of business partners in pursuit of specific business objectives defined by the customer. Current literature confirms the need for new coordination structures and tools to be used to support management of a shared business process in these emerging forms of organisations. The main objectives of this paper are to investigate coordination requirements in dynamic VE and to propose a mechanism called the time-map that can be used to support coordination during all phases of the VE life cycle.
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