Many authoritative scholars of Business Administration reported limits to teaching exclusively through frontal lectures, as traditionally taught in degree courses in Economics. The IFAC (International Federation of Accountants) recommends a less passive approach to teaching by providing more...

It is argued that either large generalists or small specialists are successful in today's consulting markets. We challenge this thesis by suggesting a "third route" to success: the "virtual consulting organization at the edge of chaos". At medium levels of connectivity and formalization of...

This book focuses on companies with technology development, offering inspiration, guidance, and hands-on advice on how to utilize the potential of a virtual company format to ensure that financial resources can be optimized in a way that provides cost-effective product development

The business environment has been changed spectacular in the last three decades, especially the speed of appearance and disappearances of business opportunities has known a major increase. Therefore the companies were determined to develop new types of organizational structures which can include...

The main goal of this paper is to propose a mathematical model which can be easily used by the strategic managers of any organisation that initiates a virtual enterprise in Romania. Therefore, the first step is to identify the main characteristics a potential partner in such a specific supply...

The paper introduces the concept of the e-marketplace integrated virtual transport enterprise, defining it as an extension of the multi-purpose electronic transportation marketplace. The theoretical foundation of this approach is laid down in the first three chapters, while the fourth chapter...

Management research has long focused on the theory of the firm, studying for-profit organizations that produce privately owned resources based on central authority and within well-defined boundaries. In recent times, a new kind of enterprise has emerged that we call Community Enterprises. They...

The paper introduces the concept of the e-marketplace integrated virtual transport enterprise, defining it as an extension of the multi-purpose electronic transportation marketplace. The theoretical foundation of this approach is laid down in the first three chapters, while the fourth chapter...

Risk management in a Virtual Enterprise (VE) is an important issue due to its agility and diversity of its members and its distributed characteristics. In this paper, we develop a risk management model for the VE. More specifically, we introduce a Distributed Decision Making (DDM) model for risk...

Risk management in a Virtual Enterprise (VE) is an important issue due to its agility and diversity of its members and its distributed characteristics. In this paper, we develop a risk management model for the VE. More specifically, we introduce a Distributed Decision Making (DDM) model for risk...

Despite the increasing academic interest in the virtual enterprise (VE), there are still two main lacunae in our understanding: conceptualisation of VE models and empirical research investigating real VE cases. This paper seeks to address these two gaps. In relation to the first, the paper...