Networked Virtual Organizations (NVOs) are a right answer to challenges of globalized, diversified, and dynamic contemporary economy. NVOs need more than e-trade and outsourcing, namely, they need out-tasking and e-collaboration. To out-task, but retain control on the way a task is performed by an external partner, two integrations are required: (1) integration of computer management systems of...

The paper reports results from a European Union (EU) project dedicated to Virtual Organization (VO) research. It aims to consolidate VO reference models and related modeling methodologies based on experiences acquired in thirty relevant EUfunded research projects. The research reveals the complex reality of deployment and adoption of VO practices and identifies a number of organizational, legal...

Remotely sensed satellite data can provide spatial and temporal coverage for global environmental monitoring. Calibration and validation are very important for more accurate satellite products and can contribute to the detection of climate changes on earth. Calibration and validation of satellite products normally use both ground-based and satellite-based data, which have geospatial metainforma...

This paper presents a framework for supporting virtual organization (VO) inheritance relying on knowledge management approach. It emphasizes that part of the problems to manage VOs is derived from the lack of information and lessons learned about the past businesses as well as that keeping the VOs ́ histories can be useful for augmenting and for given more agility in the decision-making process....

Virtual organizations are perceived as a means for achieving flexibility. However, shared inter-organizational business processes may pose additional constraints on the internal processes of an organization and reduce their flexibility. The paper builds on a conceptual model of business processes in a virtual organization. The model aimes at identifying a minimal process definition to support t...

This paper presents the baseline of a framework for building electronic villages of local interest as communities of practice. In this context, an electronic village is considered as a multi-sector virtual organization in which electronic squads are formed as coalitions of representatives from different sectors to work together for a period of time to realize a common mission. We assume tight c...

E-contracts have been broadly used to improve business-to-business collaboration. Different e-contracting activities have been identified to support e-contract establishment and e-contract fulfillment. In virtual organization domain, there exist different types of virtual organizations. Each of them has different purposes, missions and goals. As an important step in a virtual organization creat...

The concept of Virtual Organization is widely discussed in the literature. The SICOV project aims to develop a generic web-based platform to support the Virtual Organization creation and work. This paper intends to present the SICOV position in the VO concept field and the main characteristics of the platform. Some results on an ongoing case study in the nanotechnology field will also be discus...

Organizing and accomplishing virtual work presents both opportunities and challenges. Our review of the literature indicates that an important element of the virtual organization phenomenon individual knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) to work virtually (Powell, Picoli and Ives, 2004), has not been well studies. Based on Bandura’s (1986) social cognitive theory, we theorize that a better un...

In the current dynamic world where organizations are inserted in, there is no time to postpone businesses due to the lack of support that helps them to establish the required connections with other organizations agilely. In this context, one of the critical issues is the creation of Virtual Organization, when partners have to be selected. This paper addresses a very closely related issue, which...