In this article, we clarify the concept of supply chain flexibility (SCF) in an attempt to unveil the difficulty in understanding and dealing with the scope this concept. The imprecise notion of SCF makes it difficult to develop valid and reliable measures which are needed to construct and test...

This paper aims to study the problem of cooperation in the extended enterprise case. This study focuses on the presentation of agent-oriented extended enterprise as a solution allowing enterprises to overcome the cooperation problem, in general, and conflict resolution, in particular. In this...