Collaborative Networked Organizations: A research agenda for emerging business models

348 Pages·2004·10.61 MB·English

by  Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

C N O
OLLABORATIVE ETWORKED RGANIZATIONS
A research agenda for emerging business models
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OLLABORATIVE

N
ETWORKED
O
RGANIZATIONS

A research agenda
for emerging business models
Edited by
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
New University of Lisbon
Portugal
Hamideh Afsarmanesh
University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD ix

PREFACE xi

1 INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 TOWARDS NEXT BUSINESS MODELS 3

1.2 SOME BASIC CONCEPTS 7

2 NEW COLLABORATIVE FORMS 11

2.1 OVERVIEW 13

2.2 VO IN INDUSTRY: STATE OF THE ART 15

Spiros Alexakis, Bernhard Kölmel, Tobias Heep
2.3 VIRTUAL ORGANISING SCENARIOS 27

Bernhard R. Katzy, Hermann Loeh, Chunyan Zhang
2.4 EMERGING COLLABORATIVE FORMS 41

Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Eoin Banahan, Jorge Pinho de Sousa,
Flavius Sturm, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, José Barata, Jim Playfoot,
Volker Tschammer
3 GLOBAL AND REGIONAL RESEARCH AGENDAS 65

3.1 OVERVIEW 67

3.2 TARGETING MAJOR NEW TRENDS 69

Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh. António Abreu
3.3 CHALLENGES OF COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS

IN EUROPE 77

Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
3.4 A CHALLENGE TOWARDS VO IN JAPANESE INDUSTRY:

INDUSTRIAL CLUSTER 91

Toshiya Kaihara
3.5 COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS IN AUSTRALIA – CHALLENGES

AND RECOMMENDATIONS 97

Laszlo Nemes, John Mo
3.6 A BRAZILIAN OBSERVATORY ON GLOBAL AND

COLLABORATIVE NETWORKED ORGANIZATIONS 103

Ricardo J. Rabelo, Alexandra A. Pereira-Klen
3.7 SOME AMERICAN RESEARCH CONCERNS ON VO 113

H T Goranson
4 HUMAN, SOCIETAL, AND ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS 119
4.1 OVERVIEW 121

4.2 SOCIO-ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGES IN THE CREATIVE 123

ECONOMY

Eoin Banahan, James Playfoot
4.3 TOWARDS STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN COLLABORATIVE

NETWORK STRUCTURES 131

Flavius Sturm, Jeroen Kemp, Ruben van Wendel de Joode
vi
4.4 COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS 139
Stephen Evans, Norman Roth
4.5 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND ADDED VALUE OF
NETWORKS 147
Stephen Evans, Norman Roth, Flavius Sturm
4.6 ETHICAL AND MORAL ISSUES FACING THE VIRTUAL
ORGANIZATION 153
Scott Hawkins
5 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
FACTORS 171
5.1 OVERVIEW 173
5.2 SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURES FOR NEW COLLABORATIVE 175
FORMS
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh
5.3 AGENT TECHNOLOGY 193
5.4 ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR VO 207
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Volker Tschammer, Hamideh Afsarmanesh
6 FOUNDATIONS AND MODELING 225
6.1 OVERVIEW 227
6.2 EMERGING BEHAVIOR IN COMPLEX COLLABORATIVE 229
NETWORKS
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh
6.3 FORMAL MODELING METHODS FOR COLLABORATIVE 237
NETWORKS
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh
6.4 AGENT TECHNOLOGY FOR VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS 245
6.5 MODELING SOCIAL ASPECTS OF COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS 253
António Lucas Soares, Jorge Pinho de Sousa
6.6 THE ORGANIZATIONAL SEMIOTICS NORMATIVE PARADIGM 261
Joaquim Filipe
7 AN EXAMPLE ROADMAP 273
7.1 A ROADMAPPING METHODOLOGY FOR STRATEGIC RESEARCH 275
ON VO
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh
7.2 A STRATEGIC ROADMAP FOR ADVANCED VIRTUAL
ORGANIZATIONS 289
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Hermann Löh,
Flavius Sturm, Martin Ollus
ANNEXES 313
A.1 AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS 315
A.2 METHOD OF WORK IN THINKcreative PROJECT 327
SUBJECT INDEX 333
AUTHOR INDEX 335
TECHNICAL SPONSOR:

European Commission IST-2000-29478 Project
Thinking network of experts on emerging smart organizations
PARTNERS
UNINOVA – Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias,
Portugal [Coordinator]
IAO - Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten
Forschung e.V., Germany
UvA - Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
CAS Software AG, Germany
CTU - Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
CeTIM - Centre for Technology and Innovation Management,
Germany / The Netherlands
Fokus – Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten
Forschung e.V., Germany
CrU -Cranfield University, UK
INESC P - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do
Porto, Portugal
Skandia Insurance Company Ltd., Sweden
RAL - RoundRose Associates Ltd., UK
www.thinkcreative.org
www.uninova.pt/~thinkcreative
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FOREWORD

A research agenda for collaborative networks
Purpose. Many practical application experiments and pilot cases nowadays provide
evidence on what works and what still remains as a challenge for collaborative
networked organizations (CNOs). The fast evolution of the information and
communication technologies and in particular the so-called Internet technologies,
also represents an important motivator for the emergence of new forms of
collaboration. However, most efforts in this area are highly fragmented, considering
only some partial facets and not a holistic perspective that would be required. We
are therefore at a point in which it is necessary to define much more consolidated
and sustainable research strategies for a second phase of research and development
in this area.
This book addresses the main disciplines involved in CNOs. It further
synthesizes the views and opinions expressed by a large number of visionaries from
the main disciplines involved in CNOs, and offers a comprehensive set of
recommendations for the establishment of a research agenda on collaborative
networks. As recognized experts in their specific areas, different authors in this book
have presented work that is backed by a large number of research results, each
focusing on specific facets of collaborative networks, and coming out of a large
number of international and national projects.
Intended audience. Given the objectives of the book, the intended audience
includes mainly the research strategy planners, decision-makers at the research
funding organizations, group leaders in research institutions, and the heads of
research departments in companies interested in research and innovative
development activities in the area of e-business and collaborative networks.
Furthermore, the book can also provide valuable directions to PhD advisors and PhD
students, who try to focus their research themes.
Style. This is a multi-author book and therefore, although an attempt is made by the
editors to achieve minimal uniformity, the reader should expect to find different
styles of writing along the various chapters.
In order to facilitate the reading of the book however, the editors have also
provided six summary overviews, one at the beginning of each of the main parts of
the book. These overviews offer a guide to the corresponding chapters included in
each part, as well as a summary of the main messages conveyed by those chapters.
Nevertheless, the reader needs to be aware of the fact that the CNO paradigm is a
highly multi-disciplinary area for research, and requiring contributions from a large
number of experts from different research communities. This by itself introduces a
new level of heterogeneity in the styles, as different communities have different
ways of expressions, different literary styles, and in each discipline different
inherent semantics are associated to the terminology used.
Sources. This book includes both the integrated summaries of the main findings and
the recommendations resulted from various initiatives promoted by THINKcreative
project, namely several regional and focused workshops, the Delphi survey, and