On the classification and management of Virtual Organisation Breeding Environments

Collaborative Networks: A Pillar of Digital Transformation

“…In turn, long-term strategic networks are characterized as strategic alliances created to act as source or breeding environments for "goal-oriented networks", i.e., aimed at providing proper conditions and support environment for dynamic creation of goal-oriented networks whenever a business opportunity arises. This class includes the (a) professional virtual communities (PVC), which are networks composed of individual professionals that get together in a long term basis to be prepared to rapidly react in response to business opportunities through the dynamic creation of temporary VTs, and the (b) VO breeding environment (VBE) that represents "an association of organizations and a number of supporting institutions committed to a long term cooperation agreement, complying with common operation principles and infrastructures, with the main goal of increasing their preparedness towards rapid configuration of temporary alliances for collaboration in potential VOs" [35,37]. Examples of such classes are industry clusters or business ecosystems.…”

From Compliance With Environmental Regulations To Pursuit Of Environmental-Based Competitive Advantages: Mediators Of The Relationship In A SME Context

“…Although SMEs have been described as lacking resources devoted to responsible activities, they can develop innovative capacity thanks to assistance from third-party organizations, which may provide a necessary external impulse, motivation, and advice to initiate or continue with environmental protection (Gombault and Versteege, 1999). Literature recognizes various types of third-party organizations such as governments and local authorities, NGOs, universities, and consultancies (Afsarmanesh and Camarinha-Matos, 2009;del Brio and Junquera, 2003;Howells, 2006;Massa and Testa, 2008;Zeng et al, 2010). These parties help SMEs gain access to and exchange relevant ecology and sustainability-related information (Spence et al, 2003), which enables them to enhance their innovative capacity (Klewitz, Zeyen, and Hansen, 2012).…”

Modeling a resource contention in the management of virtual organizations

“…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.…”

“…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.…”