Positioning a company in enterprise collaborations: Vertical integration and make-or-buy decisions

Vallespir, B.; Kleinhans, S.

doi:10.1080/09537280110042701

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“…We argue that the co-ordination choices of the Amsterdam Police Force resemble 'make or buy' decisions in enterprise networks as discussed in earlier contributions to this journal , Vallespir and Kleinhans 2001. For instance, Thoben and Jagdev (2001: 421) state:…”

Section: Co-ordination Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 92%

A social simulation-game to explore future co-ordination in knowledge networks at the Amsterdam Police Force

Laere

Vreede

Sol

2006

Production Planning & Control

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The 32 autonomous neighbourhood teams of the Amsterdam Police Force need to utilise each other's knowledge and expertise to deal with the variety and complexity of their daily work assignments. However, despite the creation of organisation wide knowledge networks, communication, co-ordination and knowledge sharing between the neighbourhood teams is disappointing. We conducted an action research to investigate how co-ordination in the knowledge networks could be improved with the help of information and communication technologies (ICTs). This article reflects on the choice of co-ordination perspectives and modelling techniques. The above problem is conceptualised and made operational in different ways in research on network co-ordination, knowledge co-ordination and co-ordination of distributed work. The article demonstrates how our initial focus on capturing quantitative measures of the co-ordination problem in a computer simulation was problematic in this case. Instead a social simulation-game that focused on the qualitative issues of this co-ordination problem was developed and played. We conclude that the choice of theoretical perspectives and modelling techniques strongly affected the results of both phases of our action research. Furthermore the article argues that more attention to qualitative issues in co-ordination is required to better understand the impact of ICT-support on co-ordination.

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Section: Co-ordination Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 92%

A social simulation-game to explore future co-ordination in knowledge networks at the Amsterdam Police Force

Laere

Vreede

Sol

2006

Production Planning & Control

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“…The simpler categorization of relationship is stated by Valespir and Kleinhans [38]. They differentiate the relationship among participants as make or buy relationship.…”

Section: Relationship Of Dependent and Independent Participantsmentioning

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Identifying Model for Decision Making Process in a Collaborative Manufacturing Network Environment

Firmansyah¹,

Djafar²

2018

EPI-IJE

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In order to be competitive through globalisation and free trade agreements, Small Manufacturing Enterprises must provide a high quality products at a competitive price at the right time. But inadequate resources of the enterprises have prevented them to remain competitive. Therefore they need to innovate and find new ways to overcome these challenges. Collaborative Manufacturing Network (CMN) is a way forward to address these challenges. However, the process of collaboration is not a simple process. Instead, it is a complex and very dynamic process since there are many factors involved that need to be considered for the establishment of a successful collaboration. Many researches have been conducted in this area of CMN, but there are still numerous unsolved problems identified. Decision making issues and formulating business collaboration model in a context of CMN are two such issues. This research tries to identify the problems faced in a CMN environment, stress on the importance of building a model based on the consideration of aspects involved in a CMN and then identifying model for decision making process in a CMN Environment.

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“…Vertically integrated enterprises (VIE) operate as large single well-integrated multi-functional firm striving for scales of economy, they typically have bureaucratic reporting hierarchies (Lynch, 2003) which evolve as, "a response to pre-existing market power problems or as a strategic move to create or enhance market power in upstream and downstream markets" (Joskow, 2003, p. 25). A VIE will typically process ultraraw materials through to end-consumer products and services to embed a firm within an industry (Harrigan, 1985;Vallespir & Kleinhans, 2001). A classic example is the Ford Motor Company is in its 20 th century heyday (Monteverde & Teece, 1982;Crandall, 1968).…”

Section: The Multi-organizational Enterprise Management: Ve Ee and Viementioning

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Strategic Management and Leadership for Systems Development in Virtual Spaces

Graham¹

2016

Advances in IT Personnel and Project Management

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The business environment today is transforming towards a collaborative context compounded by multiorganizational cooperation and related information system infrastructures. This chapter aims to examine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems development and emerging practices in the management of multi-organizational enterprises and identify the circumstances under which the so-called 'ERPIII' systems fit into the Virtual Enterprise paradigm; and vice versa. An empirical inductive study was conducted using case studies from successful companies in the UK and China. Data were collected through 48 semi-structured interviews and analyzed using the Grounded-Theory based Methodology (GTM) to derive a set of 29 tentative propositions which were then validated via a questionnaire survey to further propose a novel conceptual framework referred to as the 'Dynamic Enterprise Reference Grid for ERP (DERG-ERP)'; which can be used for innovative decision-making about how ERP information systems and multi-organizational enterprises-particularly the Virtual Enterprise may be co-developed.

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Positioning a company in enterprise collaborations: Vertical integration and make-or-buy decisions

Cited by 25 publications

References 4 publications

A social simulation-game to explore future co-ordination in knowledge networks at the Amsterdam Police Force

A social simulation-game to explore future co-ordination in knowledge networks at the Amsterdam Police Force

Identifying Model for Decision Making Process in a Collaborative Manufacturing Network Environment

Strategic Management and Leadership for Systems Development in Virtual Spaces

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