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Enabling Virtual Enterprises: A Case for Multi-disciplinary Research

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The paper begins by defining different kinds of virtual enterprises and the kinds of support needed to make them sustainable. The paper identifies three requirements must be satisfied. These are technology that supports interaction across distance, a favorable organizational culture and the desire to share knowledge. All must be present to result in sustainable virtual organizations. Thus participants in such organizations must be willing to share knowledge, be encouraged to do so by their work environment and have suitable services provided by technologies for this purpose. The paper concludes with some examples of research questions that need to be addressed.

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  1. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney

    I. T. Hawryszkiewycz

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  1. IFI, University of Zurich, Winterthurer Straße 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland

    Kurt Bauknecht

  2. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstraße 9-11/188, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    A Min Tjoa

  3. Institute of Computer Science and Business Informatics, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 4, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Gerald Quirchmayr

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Hawryszkiewycz, I.T. (2002). Enabling Virtual Enterprises: A Case for Multi-disciplinary Research. In: Bauknecht, K., Tjoa, A.M., Quirchmayr, G. (eds) E-Commerce and Web Technologies. EC-Web 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2455. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45705-4_1

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