Request Based Virtual Organisations (RBVO): An Implementation Scenario

Abstract

Evolving e-commerce technologies increasingly enable organisations to participate in different types of network forms or in electronic markets with previously unidentified trading partners. Virtual organisations (VO) take different forms, have varying lifecycles and involve different scope and depth of relationships. This paper examines the literature in terms of the terminology of virtual organisations, the business drivers, the common theoretical concepts and models as well as the enabling technologies. A specific form of VO, Request Based Virtual Organisation (RB VO), is then considered in relation tothese VO variants, particularly as realised through the practical work done within the framework of the EU sponsored LA URA project that facilitates interregional zones of adaptive electronic commerce.

Patterns and technologies for enabling supply chain traceability through collaborative e-business

“…To this aim, traceability needs to be supported by appropriate architectural and technical implementation solutions, as well as suitable operational services, in order to provide its expected value for business partners. These solutions have been studied in the framework of virtual organization (VO) models [10,11], where independent organizations share resources and skills to achieve a specific goal. In this context, Choudhury [12] has analyzed problems from the standpoint of a firm making strategic decisions about inter-organizational systems (IOSs), addressing the questions of what types of IOSs might be useful, and how these IOSs might be developed.…”

RBVO Formation Protocol

“…The concept of Request-based Virtual Organizations (RBVO) defined by Roberts in [4] comprise a cluster of partnering organizations that have totally replaced their vertical integration into a virtual one. The RBVOs are shortliving entities that are formed to respond to business opportunities offered in electronic commerce.…”

Agent-based service-oriented collaborative architecture for value chains of SMEs

“…Building on some of our previous work [2,3] we use the concept of Request Based Virtual Organisation (RBVO), a value network which is dynamically formed upon demand to meet identified business opportunities, to address the issues of SMEs involved in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software market in a number of EU countries.…”