Virtual Organizations: An Overview

Abstract

The need to remain competitive in the open market forces companies to concentrate on their core competencies while searching for alliances when additional skills or resources are needed to fulfill business opportunities. The changing business situation of companies and customer needs have motivated researchers to introduce Virtual Organization (VO) idea. A Virtual Organization is always a form of partnership and managing partners and handling partnerships are crucial. Virtual organizations are defined as a temporary collection of enterprises that cooperate and share resources, knowledge, and competencies to better respond to business opportunities. This paper presents base concepts of virtual organizations including properties, management concepts, operational concepts, and main issues in collaboration such as security and authentication.

Uma Revisão Sistemática sobre Abordagens em Organizações Virtuais no Contexto de Confiança, Reputação e Computação em Nuvem

“…Nami [27] propõe uma revisão sobre o conceito de OV, apresentando definições, benefícios, propriedades e os desafios envolvidos na criação da OV, por exemplo, gerenciamento de confiança, segurança, autenticação e engenharia de ontologia.…”

Knowledge And Relational Competences In Virtual Organisations

“…The theoretical underpinnings of the paper include discussions of the nature of VO as well as of the role knowledge and the development of relational competencies play in the development and operation of VOs. A VO is a dynamic way of organizing collaboration between independent businesses (Camarinha-Matos and Afsarmanesh 2007;Reza Nami, 2008;Jin and Suntrayuth, 2022;Godziewska-Nowicka et al, 2017). The empirical section of the paper is based on findings from a study carried out in 2018 that looked at businesses with operations in Poland.…”

Techniques for Personnel Selection in Virtual Organization

“…In some cases, VOs are created from independent organizations that share resources and skills to achieve the goals. Generally, depending on the degree or spectrum of virtuality, VO is divided into three categories: remote VO, employee/competence outsourcing organization, and complete VO [8][9][10].…”