Organizational Coordination Theory and Its Application in Virtual Enterprise

As one of the most important theories, coordination appears in a lot of fields and becomes a remarkable subject. This paper sums up the frame of the organizational coordination theory by refining the meaning of coordination, and with the support of this frame, studies the virtual enterprise’s coordination mechanism in two layers which are the strategy layer and the task layer according to the characteristic of the dependences among the member companies. In the strategy layer, the trust relation in the virtual enterprise is built to coordinate the member companies’ cooperating relations. And in the task layer, the task is decomposed and coordinated smoothly to make sure the achievement of the virtual enterprise’s aim.