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Industrial competition is advancing from being between individual companies, to being between extended enterprises, in an environment which is agile, constantly changing in unpredictable directions. The reasons for this are several, but they all converge on the same result, that competitive pressures for reduced prices, and better customer-centered quality and functionality, force companies to interact intensively. This development in turn, is having a profound effect on management and structure both within and between companies, because the extended enterprise has evolved into a single system with real-time interactions between companies. The individual enterprise, which is international and interactive in the culture of the interne, has been termed the Interprise. This paper reviews these trends and shows emerging models for the new structure.
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Preiss, K. (1998). The Emergence of the Interprise. In: Schönsleben, P., Büchel, A. (eds) Organizing the Extended Enterprise. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35295-4_1
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