The rapid evolution of the markets and the changing client’s demands determined enterprises to adapt their business from traditional business practices to e-business, and new forms of collaboration (such as supply chain enterprises, extended enterprises or virtual enterprises) were created. Technologies such as Peer-toPeer, Web services, intelligent agents, Workflow become core technologies sup...

The World Wide Web technology, supported on Internet, is transforming all business activities into information-based activities. As a result, one can see a radical change in the traditional theoretical models and organisation. The small and medium enterprises (SME) are the type of enterprises that can reap more advantages with the usage of Internet for electronic business. We found that current...

abstract because of today's dynamic business environment and three emerging major trends of intense international competition, discrete markets, and changing technology, innovation is drawing increasing attention as a solution. these trends have aroused business scholars’ interest in running in-depth investigations on the concept of social capital as a critical factor in improving organizationa...

Virtual Enterprises (VEs) use software agents (SAs) to reduce costs, speed up operations, and increase efficiency and competitiveness. Agents can carry out negotiations and make contracts without any human intervention. This makes them useful both in negotiations to set up a VE and in contracting with VE partners. Agents raise legal problems about the relevance and validity of their actions. Th...

Interfirm collaboration among knowledge intensive firms is increasing as a result of accelerating competition, falling regulatory barriers, and rising customer expectations. Resource dependency theory is used to position knowledge as the key resource for the knowledge-based enterprise (KBE) and to examine the suitability of alliances as a mode of knowledge acquisition and exchange, contrasted p...

The credit lack of third-party logistics enterprises has severely hampered the healthy development of the industry. This article establish the credit evaluation index system for third-party logistics enterprises based on the analysis of factors influencing the credit for a comprehensive, objective, scientific credit level evaluation. The authors determine the weight of every evaluation index wi...

Models of organizational learning must be adapted to network enterprises, virtual enterprises, and other new organizational forms enabled by information technology. Since it is increasingly among these enterprises that e-commerce activity occurs, organizational learning is a requisite for reaping the benefits they offer and avoiding the pit falls. A model was developed and validated based on a ...

One of the popular ways of taking advantage of personnel creativity is through suggestion systems. Our main question is how to implement suggestion system in holding with conglomerate structure. The paper presents an innovative model that were named ITFSK Model with accordance of Bonayade Taavone (a holding that has many companies and institutions with conglomerate structure). ITFSK is a model ...

Latin American economy is growing fast and national enterprises are looking for new ways of improving their competitive position against international firms, specially Small and Medium Enterprises. The concept of Virtual Enterprises can be a new way to do business and exploit business opportunities for these companies. In this report we will discuss the Framework for Virtual Enterprises develop...

This paper is concerned with the permanence and extinction problem of enterprises cluster constituted by m satellite enterprises and a dominant enterprise. We present the model involving impulsive effect based on ecology theory, which effectively describe the competition and cooperation of enterprises cluster in real economic environment. Applying comparison theorem of impulsive differential eq...