Knowledge And Technology Management in Virtual Organizations: Issues, Trends, Opportunities and Solutions

by Putnik, Goran D.

• ISBN13: 9781599041650
• ISBN10: 1599041650
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-31
• Publisher: Igi Global

Summary

Knowledge and Technology Management in Virtual Organizations: Issues, Trends, Opportunities and Solutions presents a collection of the most recent contributions in the areas of organization, knowledge, and technology management in the context of virtual enterprises. This book contains important and in-depth information on four dimensions: semantic, managerial, technological, and social. The semantic dimensions covered in this book are ontological and organizational approaches, concepts, organizational models, and knowledge management models. In respect to managerial dimensions, this book covers process management, integration management, relationship management, process integration, knowledge management, technology integration management, and information integration. Knowledge and Technology Management in Virtual Organizations: Issues, Trends, Opportunities and Solutions presents the technological dimension by explaining the infrastructures and technologies to support technology and information integration standards and protocols. Lastly, this title highlights the social dimension, including human resources management, human resources integration, social issues, social impact, social requirements, and communities of knowledge.

Table of Contents

Environments for virtual enterprise integration	p. 1
Service engineering and extended artefact delivery	p. 24
Offshoring : evolution or revolution?	p. 69
How should enterprises integrate? : from the need to the solution	p. 96
A generation of moderators from single product to global e-supply	p. 110
Integrating business processes and information systems in an interorganizational context	p. 136
The organisation of performance measurement in an extended enterprise	p. 155
Process-driven business integration management for collaboration networks	p. 190
The role of ambiguity in the transfer of knowledge within organizational networks	p. 211
Systemic innovation capability : the case study of Embraer, the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer	p. 220
I-accounting : an adaptive approach (method + practices) to account for intangibles	p. 240
Enabling the virtual organization with agent technology	p. 258
Enterprise organisational structure integration and service-oriented architectures	p. 279
Knowledge creation and adaptive collaboration based on XML Web services	p. 292
Software agent technology for supporting ad hoc virtual enterprises	p. 306
Business networking : the technological infrastructure support	p. 334
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