The Emerging Discipline of Collaborative Networks

An outlook of future research needs on networked organizations p. 17 A modeling approach for designing value chain of VE p. 27 Role based and processes based modelling approach for organization network p. 35 Odamy extending B2B integration technology architecture p. 43 The typed domain-a recipe for creating virtual enterprises p. 53 Introducing time horizons to enterprise networking architecture p. 63 Towards a meta-methodology for collaborative networked organisations p. 71 Harmonising business processes of collaborative networked organisations using process modelling p. 81 IDR : a proposal for managing inter-organizational business processes by using Web-services oriented architectures p. 89 Integration of a contract framework in BP models p. 97 A multi-agent model integrating inventory and routing processes p. 107 An operational and secure mobile-agent based system for business process reconstruction p. 115 Software agents as legal persons p. 123 A cybernetic approach towards knowledge-based coordination of dynamically networked enterprises p. 135 Knowledge exchange in a supply chain context p. 145 Inter-organizational knowledge management : the importance of organizational and environmental context p. 153 Ontology-based automatic data structure generation for collaborative networks p. 163 Ontology-services agent to help in the structural and semantic heterogeneity p. 175 Enhancing interoperability through the ontological filtering system p. 183 Smart configuration of dynamic virtual enterprises p. 193 Dynamic configuration of collaboration in networked organisations p. 205 Intelligent supply chain planning in virtual enterprises p. 215 Enterprise negotiation algorithm with Walrasian virtual market p. 227 Electronic contracting in the E-engineering hub p. 235 Integrating procurement, production planning, and inventory management processes through negotiation information p. 245 Challenges in the management of virtual organizations p. 255 A comparison of supply chain management policies p. 265 A business model for managing the virtual enterprise p. 273 Promoting trading partner trust in B2B E-commerce through the use of service level agreements and the establishment of support centres p. 283 Why management in system and information technology p. 291 The formation and dissolution of organizational networks : a knowledge management perspective p. 301