Collaborative network theory can be useful in refining current understanding of criminal networks and aid in understanding their evolution. Drug trafficking organizations that operate in the region directly north of Colombia’s Valle del Cauca department and the “collection agencies” that operate in the Colombian city of Cali have abandoned hierarchical organizational structures and have become ...

Although knowledge is one of the most valuable resource of enterprises and an important production and competition factor, this intellectual potential is often used (or maintained) only inadequate by the enterprises. Therefore, in a globalised and growing market the optimal usage of existing knowledge represents a key factor for enterprises of the future. Here, knowledge management systems shou...

The Internet has changed the way of traditional marketing propagation dramatically. Increasingly enterprises pay much attention on micro-blogging marketing and utilize it as a necessary tool of promotion. It has practical meaning for those enterprises analyzing the factors which influence the effect of micro-blogging marketing, therefore building better marketing strategies and enhancing the pr...

Efficient supply chain management demands transparency for inventory and deliveries along the whole supply network. However, the information technology solutions enabling transparency are expensive and intricate to install and few small and medium sized enterprises have adopted their use. This paper identifies the distinct difficulties small and medium sized enterprises experience with the prev...

With the prompt development of the economy and the society, the demand of logistics is increasing quickly. Modern logistics industry develops very quickly and has been playing important role in the construction of economy and society development. As the important content of the logistics industry, the logistics enterprises must emphasize on the marketing. Based on the analysis on the characteri...

Global competition forces enterprises to concentrate on their core competencies while transforming themselves to participate in emerging interenterprise formations following the virtual enterprise (VE) paradigm. VE is a form that offers high flexibility, agility and resilience for enterprises to survive and prosper in the globalized economy. This paper introduces the real world VE that uses age...

Enterprises and networked enterprises need today effective communication and exchange of distributed data and services under dynamic and context-dependent requirements. Semantic interoperability is considered a key issue to enforce dynamic discovery and composition of distributed data and services. In this paper we specifically address the problem of service discovery and we present an ontology...

When cooperating with each other, enterprises must closely monitor internal processes and those of partners to streamline business-to-business (B2B) workflows. This work applies the process-view model, which extends beyond conventional activity-based process models, to design workflows across multiple enterprises. A process-view is an abstraction of an implemented process. An enterprise can des...

Voice technologies can enrich the ways in which people communicate and enable novel modes of collaboration, such as integrated voice-and text-based communication services, social and business networking facilities, and the evolving Internet technologies (collectively known as the Web 2.0 technologies). These new technologies can alleviate many problems in interpersonal communications, including...