A VALUE OPTIMISING STRUCTURE IN VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES
The significant increase in inter-organisational collaboration during the last two decades has led to the development of the so called Virtual Enterprises, defined as a company which can optimally utilise operational internalisation and externalisation to improve its performance. Such Virtual Enterprises are different from traditional companies in that they can achieve tasks beyond their internal capacity, and focus more resources on core competencies thus becoming agile. To transform a traditional organisation into a virtual enterprise, it is necessary to create an alliance management function for managing alliance operations. This paper describes the development of an externalisation and internalisation (EI) management function as the core of a virtual enterprise, organised around an organisations value stream function. This value stream oriented structure further ensures that the optimisation is value adding.
Alliance management function valuestream EI management function functional structure
Y. Zhang A. K. Kochhar
School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingham, B15 3QL, United Kingdom
国际会议
上海
英文
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2009-08-02（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）