Dynamic Virtual Organizations, or Not So Dynamic?

Expectations created by the early rapid developments in virtual organizations, hoping to resolve the main challenges in the area and continuous emergence of new related facilities are still far from full materialization. Being a multidisciplinary area that requires the participation of experts in ICT, theory of organizations, sociology, economy, law, etc., there is primarily a need for further developments in terms of modeling and better understanding of concepts, as well as supporting infrastructures and tools. Harmonization of the current approaches and establishment of common reference models and practices is also a prerequisite. In this context a brief characterization of the state of the art is made and several open research issues are introduced.