The basic idea of the real-time enterprise is to become quicker. A business which wants to become a real-time enterprise has to acquire three main abilities:- Internal and external data is integrated quickly and in real time in a well-organized company data pool,- Analyses of information in the...

Business Information Systems in a Networked, Smart and Open Environment.- Information Systems Implementation and Structural Adaptation in Government-Business Inter-Organization.- Management Control Systems in inter-organizational relationships for environmental sustainability and energy...

This book identifies factors of information system (IS) integration that influence supply chain agility and illustrates how IS integration can achieve greater supply chain agility. Also considering the consequent operational impacts that arise from IS-enabled supply chain agility, the author...

Collaboration of organizations reshapes traditional managerial practices and creates new inter-organizational contexts for strategy, coordination and control, information and knowledge management. Heralded as organizational forms of the future, networks are at the same time fragile and...

Networks of firms have been in the focus of management research for several years. Recently, special attention has been paid to so-called business webs. Business webs are networks of firms which provide complements to a common product architecture. In the past, research focused on management...

Die neuen Informationstechnologien ermöglichen Geschäftslösungen, die die Prozesse fundamental verändern: Unternehmen werden innerhalb des Verbundes Lieferant-Hersteller-Abnehmer in ihre wertschöpfenden Bestandteile zerlegt und in virtuellen Geschäftsgemeinschaften neu zusammengefügt....