How Many Networks Are We To Manage?

The continuous transformation of the industrial society into a service and knowledge society is accompanied by profound change of demand: Customer requests will increasingly focus on individual products, shorter delivery times and appropriate prices. To encounter these challenges under the conditions of a dynamic global market and inter-regional competition, the CRC 457 “Non-Hierarchical Regional Production-Networks” at the Chemnitz University of Technology focuses on SME and investigates ways to implement customer-oriented, temporary networking of smallest autonomous value added units (“competence cells”) in the region of South-West-Saxony, Germany....