TY - JOUR
T1 - Methodological support to establish a collaborative non-hierarchical business network for complex product manufacturing
AU - Shamsuzzoha, A. H.M.
AU - Kankaanpää, Timo
AU - Carneiro, Luis
AU - Almeida, Ricardo
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - Increasing demand on dynamic business network motivates manufacturing companies, especially small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to be collaborative for achieving potential market gains. This need can be fulfilled by forming non-hierarchical business network, where the partners integrate with each other after identifying specific business opportunity. This research focuses to demonstrate the methodological stages of enabling a virtual organisation within the European RTD project Net-Challenge. In this research, methodological support to identify and collect the business scenarios and basic requirements related with choosing appropriate partners, building trust and sharing valuable information among them are presented. The fundamental issues related to collaboration such as critical factors for partnerships, criteria for qualifying a potential partner, assessment of a partner are elaborated within the scope of this paper. The paper is concluded with presenting an empirical study of six case companies and the issues related to business collaboration are critically discussed.
AB - Increasing demand on dynamic business network motivates manufacturing companies, especially small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to be collaborative for achieving potential market gains. This need can be fulfilled by forming non-hierarchical business network, where the partners integrate with each other after identifying specific business opportunity. This research focuses to demonstrate the methodological stages of enabling a virtual organisation within the European RTD project Net-Challenge. In this research, methodological support to identify and collect the business scenarios and basic requirements related with choosing appropriate partners, building trust and sharing valuable information among them are presented. The fundamental issues related to collaboration such as critical factors for partnerships, criteria for qualifying a potential partner, assessment of a partner are elaborated within the scope of this paper. The paper is concluded with presenting an empirical study of six case companies and the issues related to business collaboration are critically discussed.
KW - Business collaboration
KW - Business scenario
KW - Case companies
KW - Methodology
KW - Non-hierarchical network
KW - SMEs
KW - Small and medium sized enterprises
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U2 - 10.1504/IJNVO.2012.048926
DO - 10.1504/IJNVO.2012.048926
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84865977468
SN - 1470-9503
VL - 11
SP - 363
EP - 381
JO - International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
JF - International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
IS - 3-4
ER -