Collaboration is essential to develop successful Collaborative Networked Organizations (CNOs). In order to know if an organization is ready and has the needed characteristics for collaborate and participate in a CNO, either a Virtual Breeding Environment (VBE) or a Virtual Organization (VO), a set of specific elements should be evaluated. These evaluation elements are referred as Readiness for ...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Virtual team provider is an emerging business on the Internet. It allows people to work together distributed across space, time and organization. Tools like BSCW or SourceForge allow an organization to host virtual teams. Although, these tools deliver functionalities, they lack required features (e.g. security, dependability and quality of service) to make them commercially acceptable. In this ...

Virtual manufacturing enterprises (VMEs) are a current, viable, and strategic form of organization for business and other organizations. The perspectives described in this literature review are based upon a basic cluster analysis that identified and classified papers into homogenous subgroups with meaningful themes, or categories. These general themes are related to strategies for business orga...

This paper describes a virtual organization (VO) partner-selection case of Virtuelle Fabrik AG, which is an operating virtual organization breeding environment (VBE). We approach the partner-selection problem through a recently developed optimization framework; therefore we also study the applicability of the framework. The results suggest that an optimization framework is potentially useful fo...

New business condition and current economical situation are forcing companies to rethink their way of operating. The rapidity of managing changes has become increasingly important. To be more competitive, companies are forming Virtual Organizations (VO) where short-term spontaneous collaboration activities are rather common. Such interoperability leads to increasing organizational architectural...

Virtual Enterprises (VEs) are an appropriated cooperation alternative and a way of gaining competitive advantage for enterprises. In this context, a promising form to extend the formation process of VEs is performing new product search and development. This proposal is being developed in a Brazilian project called VIRTEC Virtual Organization of Technology. In order to develop Virtual Products, ...