Support for virtual organisation creation &amp;ndash; partners' profiles and competency management

Hodík, Jiří; Vokřínek, Jiří; Bečvář, P

doi:10.1504/ijaose.2009.023638

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“…A virtual team (VT) is an evolutionary form of a network organization, enabled by the advances in information and communication technology(ICT) (Davidow & Malone, 1992); VT have been defined variously by many researchers (Fiol & O'Connor, 2005;Jarvenpaa & Leidner, 1999;Jarvenpaa, Shaw, & Staples, 2004;Lipnack & Stamps, 1997;Lurey & Raisinghani, 2001;Schiller & Mandviwalla, 2007), ranging from geographic and temporal member distribution, adaptability, to the use of a variety of media and member diversity. This concept implies a network structure (Putnik, Gonçalves, Sluga, & Cunha, 2008) that changes along time (Jarvenpaa & Leidner, 1999), i.e., created to answer to a market opportunity and that reconfigures itself to keep a close alignment with the market, dissolving itself at the end of the project (Cunha & Putnik, 2002;Cunha, Putnik, & Gunasekaran, 2003;Hodik, Vokrinek, & Becvac, 2009).However,for several authors (Jarvenpaa et al, 2004;Wilson, Straus, & McEvily, 2006), the reliance of VT on ICT can promote free riding and lack of commitment due to the fact that members do not face one another, as it is through a history of interactions that people come to know and trust one another.…”

Section: Virtual Teamsmentioning

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Evaluation of User Acceptance of Virtual Environments and Interfaces for Communication in Virtual Teams

Cruz-Cunha

Putnik

Gonçalves

et al. 2014

International Journal of Web Portals

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Several studies have highlighted the relevance of face-to-face communication, suggesting that computer-mediated communication can lead to decreases in group effectiveness and reduce satisfaction levels in terms of trust and comfort of its users. Supported by an experiment where the emotional or affective aspects of communication were tested, this paper validates the thesis that, from the users' perspective, there is no opposition to the acceptance of virtual environments and interfaces for communication, and that these environments are able to cope with the reconfiguration dynamics requirements of virtual teams or client-server relations in a virtual enterprise operation. For the thesis validation, the authors experimented with two architectures, the Direct Communication Architecture (DCA) and the Virtual Communication Architecture (VCA) and found that the VCA could represent a “natural” environment to cope with the new generation of organizational environments and teams, characterised by intense reconfiguration dynamics.

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Section: Virtual Teamsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of User Acceptance of Virtual Environments and Interfaces for Communication in Virtual Teams

Cruz-Cunha

Putnik

Gonçalves

et al. 2014

International Journal of Web Portals

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“…It has been pointed out in several works [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][21][22][23][24] that the success of a VO largely depends on the commitment, the mutual trust and the flexibility of the participating entities. These factors should be supported by a number of knowledge management technologies [13,17,18] to achieve the goals of the VO.…”

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“…A virtual organization (VO) provides a cost-efficient method for different autonomous entities, such as organizations, departments and individuals, to share resources in a virtual marketplace [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. This type of coalition offers a wider range of services in a more cost-efficient and competitive way than the classical service provisions that come from separate organizations without cooperation.…”

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Modeling a resource contention in the management of virtual organizations

2010

Information Sciences

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“…Since the terms "competency", "competency class", "competency instance" and "profile" are used in several slightly different meanings, it is important to summarize the competency management terminology (Biesalski, 2003). For the purpose of e-Cat the definitions presented in (Hodík at al., 2009) are used:…”

Section: Competency Managementmentioning

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Expanding Decision Support Systems Outside Company Gates

Pěchouček¹,

Psutka²

2010

Decision Support Systems

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Decision Support Systems 244 2. ExtraPlanT multi-agent system for production and supply chain planning Besides collecting and presenting data to the user, the modern decision support systems also provide extensive analysis of these data. Such analysis can include simulation, knowledgebased analysis, data mining, and other approaches based on artificial intelligence. These modern approaches require a great deal of computer resources and direct access to company data sources, which can be a drawback in modern, decentralized and nomadic environment. A straightforward solution to this problem is an application server that runs all the analysis within company gates and user interface clients that make the results accessible worldwide (Shen at al., 2005). These clients can be thick clients which must be installed by the user or thin clients which run in the user's web browser. For users within the enterprise, thick client technology is usually used: the unformatted results are transferred and presented by a client program running on a personal computer. Thin client technology is more suitable for users outside the enterprise, so that the results are formatted by the application server into a presentable format (e.g. HTML, ECMA Script 1 or ActionScript 2) and presented to the user by a standardized device. The potential of thin and thick client approach is demonstrated in this section using an example of ExtraPlanT decision support system and their Extra-enterprise and Enterpriseto-enterprise features (Bečvá at al., 2007). While original ExtraPlanT interfaces adhered to the concept of thin client, contemporary interfaces usually use Rich Internet Application technique to enrich thin clients with the features originally common to thick clients. 2.1 Internal system architecture The ExtraPlanT decision support system has been developed by Gerstner Laboratory at the Czech Technical University in Prague, the CertiCon Company 3. ExtraPlanT is an extension of ExPlanTech (Pěchouček at al., 2002b) intra-enterprise production scheduling in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) with project-oriented production. ExPlanTech implements a ProPlanT (Ma ík at al. 2000) reference multi-agent architecture. The system is composed of non-trivial agents providing different system functionality. The number of agents changes only to reflect changes in the factory configuration or to add system features. The basic set of agents that have to be always present in ExPlanTech system is called Core Agents and it implements planning and resource management. The purpose of this core functionality is to aid a human user in determining the resources needed for a particular project, creating production plans, and balancing the utilization of internal resources, and also to warn the user if there are insufficient resources for the existing project. The Core Agents can be extended by a number of optional Additional Agents implementing other related features. In ExPlanTech project, these agents were responsible for interaction with legacy factory system...

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Support for virtual organisation creation – partners' profiles and competency management

Cited by 7 publications

References 24 publications

Evaluation of User Acceptance of Virtual Environments and Interfaces for Communication in Virtual Teams

Evaluation of User Acceptance of Virtual Environments and Interfaces for Communication in Virtual Teams

Modeling a resource contention in the management of virtual organizations

Expanding Decision Support Systems Outside Company Gates

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