The impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on business organisations across the globe have been dramatic and unprecedented. While some collapsed, others managed to survive maintained stability; whereas flourished tremendously. determinant what happens any organisation is predominantly a function her response covid-19 imposed challenges. In this paper, we present broad review literature rooted in work org...

Systems of distributed processors connected by a physical network may have a virtual structure imposed on them to facilitate parallel cooperative system actions. This paper describes the Multiple Virtual Rings organization which is an instance of this approach. System processors are partitioned into groups, structured as virtual rings, which operate in parallel to accumulate local information a...

Virtual Organizations in a dynamic environment need efficient methods of change management to initiate changes to partners’ services. In this paper, the authors present a structural and a procedural framework for change management in Service-Oriented Virtual Organizations. The structural framework categorizes changes into three layers of change and identifies triggers of changes. The procedural...

The ability to construct dynamic, flexible virtual organizations becomes one of the most desired features of a distributed application system. This paper proposes an agent-mediated service framework for constructing virtual organizations at the business level. Through dynamic matching between business services and Web services, and the negotiation between virtual organization agent and partners...

Around fifteen years ago the concept ‘virtual organisation’ (VO) was coined to describe changes in organisational structures of value creation as a reaction to developments in modern market environments. Since then, the VO as a concept has been used to describe different things in different contexts, so that today we find a rather unsatisfying mix of VO notions in the literature. Moreover, in m...

Communication technology is a field of significant innovation: at a fast pace new systems are being introduced in the market. At the same time, advances in ICT drive the emergence of new organisational forms such as the virtual organisation (VO). The VO is regarded a concept that provides firms with the necessary flexibility in changing markets. Modern ICT, i.e. communication systems and tools,...