Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations (3 Volumes)

Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations (3 Volumes)

Goran D. Putnik, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha
Release Date: March, 2008|Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 2048
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7
ISBN13: 9781599048857|ISBN10: 159904885X|EISBN13: 9781599048864
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Description:

The virtual enterprise as a new organizational paradigm has three fundamental features: dynamics of network reconfiguration, virtuality, and external entities as environments for enabling or supporting the virtual enterprise integration as well as reconfiguration dynamics. The field of knowledge on this topic is highly fragmented due to the in existence of a transfer of knowledge between regions, developers, and researchers.

The Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations documents 249 of the most relevant contributions authored by over 400 of the world's leading experts to the introduction of networked, dynamic, agile, and virtual organizational models; definitions; taxonomies; opportunities; and reference models and architectures. These volumes pool the existing works, approaches, solutions, and needs of the virtual enterprise research community to create a repository of the main developments regarding the virtual organization, compiling definitions, characteristics, comparisons, advantages, practices, enabling technologies, and best practices.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Advanced design and management systems
  • Agile organizational models
  • Best practices of virtual organizations
  • Business Process Improvement
  • Dynamics of network reconfiguration
  • E-collaborations in virtual organizations
  • E-Commerce
  • Future trends of virtual and networked organizations
  • Information technology management
  • Information technology support for e-learning
  • Knowledge Management
  • Knowledge Transfer
  • Networked and virtual organizations in education
  • Networked and virtual organizations in healthcare
  • Requirements for virtual enterprise integration
  • Strategic e-collaboration
  • Supply chain management in a virtual enterprise
  • Virtual enterprise integration
  • Virtual organization architecture
  • Virtual organization foundations and processes
Reviews & Statements

The encyclopedia widens horizons for researchers interested in this emerging field, presenting the state-of-the-art background and developments.

– Goran D. Putnik, University of Minho, Portugal

Putnik and Cunha present a three-volume encyclopedia on networked and virtual organizations, which have 'three fundamental features: dynamics of network reconfiguration, virtuality, and external entities as environments for enabling or supporting the virtual enterprise integration as well as reconfiguration dynamics'.

– Book News Inc. (2008)

Each article includes a formal introduction and conclusion as well as a list of references and a glossary of key terms.

– American Reference Books Annual (2008)

This three-volume set on networked and virtual organizations offers a multifaced and high-level examination of a very contemporary topic. The articles focus on information and communication technology concepts.

– American Reference Books Annual, Vol. 40 (2009)
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Goran D. Putnik received his Dipl. Eng., M.Sci. and Dr.Sci. from the Belgrade University, both M.Sci. and Dr.Sci. in the domain of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems. He is currently Associate Professor, at Department of Production and Systems Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal) and teaches, or has taught, a number of subjects in the area of CIM, IMS, Concurrent Engineering, Design Theory, and Virtual Enterprises on undergraduate and post-graduate studies. He served as the Director of the Centre for Production Systems Engineering (CESP) and as the Director of the Master Course on CIM, at the University of Minho. Dr. Putnik’s scientific and engineering interests are manufacturing systems and enterprises design and control theory and implementation, design theory and design engineering, formal theory of production systems and enterprises, and distributed, agile and virtual enterprises. He regularly publishes articles and presents papers on conferences. In last years his special attention is on the topic of Virtual Enterprises for which he organized a research group and a number of research projects and has been also an invited speaker by international research groups.
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Technology at the Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal. She holds a Dipl. Eng. in the field of Systems and Informatics Engineering, an M.Sci. in the field of Computer Integrated Manufacturing and a Dr.Sci in the field of Production Systems Engineering. She teaches subjects related to Information Systems, Information Technologies and Organizational Models to undergraduate and post-graduate studies. She supervises several PhD projects in the domain of Virtual Enterprises and Information Systems and Technologies. She regularly publishes in international peer-reviewed journals and participates in international scientific conferences. She serves as a member of Editorial Boards and as an Associate Editor for several International Journals and for several Scientific Committees of International Conferences. She has authored and edited several books and her work appears in more than 100 papers published in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. She is the co-founder and co-chair of several international conferences: CENTERIS – Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems, ViNOrg - International Conference on Virtual and Networked Organizations: Emergent Technologies and Tools and SeGAH – IEEE International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health.
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Editorial Advisory Board
Peter Bernus
Griffith University, Australia

Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Subhasish Dasgupta
The George Washington University, USA

Janet Efstathiou
University of Oxford, UK

Eldaw E. Eldukhri
Cardiff University, UK

Ricardo Gonçalves
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Bernard Grabot
l'Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tarbes, France

Eric den Hartigh
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Harinder S. Jagdev
University of Manchester, UK

Stanislav Karapetrovic
University of Alberta, Canada

Bernhard Katzy
University of Leiden, Germany

Bill Lawless
Paine College, USA

Nada Lavrac
Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Vladimir Marik
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Abbe Mowshowitz
The City College of New York, USA

Shimon Y. Nof
Purdue University, USA

Eugenio Oliveira
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Nicolaos Protogeros
University of Macedonia, Greece

Vinesh Raja
University of Warwick, UK

Thomas Saaty
University of Pittsburgh, USA

Weiming Shen
The University of Western Ontario, Canada

Antonio Lucas Soares
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Bob Travica
University of Manitoba, Canada

Ljubo Vlacic
Griffith University, Australia