Virtual enterprise network

Sustainability Benefits Analysis of Cyber-Manufacturing Systems

“…VE is a task-based virtual network that links, absorbs (or remove) alliances or strategic partners into a shared network. It rises for the purpose of using the business opportunities that any individual subject is not able to use independently (Januska and Chodúr 2009). VE is the early implementation of sharing manufacturing resources, information and capabilities (Cao and Dowlatshahi 2005).…”

Toward a Knowledge Sharing-Aimed Virtual Enterprise

“…In today business environment, which is extremely inter-connected, businesses can ally together to form a VE to complement their competencies and/or share their resources collaboratively around the globe by the means of computer networks to seize new opportunities (or react to upcoming threats) in order to remain competitive [5,[14][15][16][17]. VEs are considered as the next organizational paradigm [30], and firms prefer to focus on their own core competencies more deeply and be a qualified node of value chain rather than focusing on other steps of a value chain out of their own capabilities [4].…”

“…VEs are considered as the next organizational paradigm [30], and firms prefer to focus on their own core competencies more deeply and be a qualified node of value chain rather than focusing on other steps of a value chain out of their own capabilities [4]. A VE is a sociotechnical system in which geographically dispersed enterprises unite in a business alliance and with a specific aim to collaborate and share their resources in order to confiscate emerging opportunities and compete in the new complex business context [2,5,14,16]. Virtual business alliances form typically with the aim of sharing and complementing either products/services or knowledge [20].…”

The Relationship Between the Circular Economy and Business Performance: A Systematic Literature Review

“…Eventually, the enterprises' environment should change to allow us to achieve a "prosperous, modern, competitive, and climate-neutral economy" (García-Quevedo et al, 2020, p. 2460, whose ultimate goal is to eliminate the concept of waste (Lacy et al, 2020). As the changes in the business environment are happening very fast, firms have to respond quickly (Januska & Chodur, 2009) and need to know the benefits of CE practice implementation to consider its implementation. As environmental benefits are already well-known, economic are not so often promoted, although, e.g.…”