Enterprise Architecture deals with the structure of an enterprise, relationships and interactions of its units. It provides a holistic approach to reconcile IT and Business concerns in an enterprise. Virtual Enterprises are collaborative ad-hoc alliances of multiple enterprises for a specific business opportunity. First we discuss both paradigms and then the Enterprise Architecture viewpoint of...

Effective control of large-scale enterprises requires a combination of long-range planning to identify appropriate strategies for meeting objectives and efficient scheduling of resources to ensure timely completion of tasks associated with those strategies. Given the highly dynamic operating environment of many enterprises, planning and scheduling must both be adaptive to unexpected events and ...

Digital identities, profiles and their management are increasingly required to enable interactions and transactions on the Internet among people, enterprises, service providers and government institutions. Recent initiatives, including Microsoft .MyServices and Liberty Alliance Project, are eager to supply mechanisms to enable identity management and simplify the overall consumer experience. En...

Collaborative business models among enterprises require defining collaborative business processes. Enterprises implement B2B collaborations to execute these processes. In B2B collaborations the integration and interoperability of processes and systems of the enterprises are required to support the execution of collaborative processes. From a collaborative process model, which describes the glob...

This paper introduces a novel approach to support processes within generic platforms for virtual enterprises (VEs): the contextbased approach. The main advantage of the approach lies in its generic capacity, which allows the users to define processes flexibly and to support their own virtual enterprises. Constructs such as contexts and subcontexts are used to define processes and can be stored ...

There are many situations in which social interactions and emerging social phenomena play important and, sometimes, fundamental roles. In our particular case we are studying networks of small to medium enterprises. In these enterprise networks each individual enterprise keeps its own identity but works in close collaboration with the others in order to produce something that the enterprises wor...

Researchers have recently begun to examine Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) through the lens of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). The behaviour of small enterprises mimics that of a CAS with interactions playing an important role as a prerequisite for CAS. Complex systems always involve interactions among system components. The presence of many interacting components is a prominent feature of c...

Equipment maintenance is an essential need for successful industrial enterprises. Several software applications are used today for initiation and management of maintenance activities. This paper introduces the PROTEUS integration platform for cooperative interactions between maintenance applications. It is necessary to define the order of these interactions, the so-called business logic workflo...

This paper investigates effects of strategic choice on organizational performance for Romanian family-owned Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs). Using adapted Jacquemin–Berry entropy index for both product and international diversification and using a regression model, our study discusses family involvement as a moderating factor for organizational performance assessment. We discovered th...

Enterprises increasingly use the Internet to offer their own services and to utilise the services of others. An extension of this trend is Internet-based collaboration between enterprises to form virtual enterprises for the delivery of goods or services. Effective formation of a virtual enterprise will require information sharing across organisational boundaries. Despite the requirement to shar...