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Organizational coordination theory and its application in virtual enterprise

  • Beihang University

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Abstract

As one of the most important theories, coordination appears in a lot of fields and becomes a remarkable subject. This paper sums up the frame of the organizational coordination theory by refining the meaning of coordination, and with the support of this frame, studies the virtual enterprise's coordination mechanism in two layers which arc the strategy layer and the task layer according to the characteristic of the dependences among the member companies. In the strategy layer, the trust relation in the virtual enterprise is built to coordinate the member companies' cooperating relations. And in the task layer, the task is decomposed and coordinated smoothly to make sure the achievement of the virtual enterprise's aim.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems II - IFIP TC 8 WG 8.9 International Conference on Research and Practical lssues of Enterprise Information Systems, CONFENIS 2007
PublisherSpringer New York LLC
Pages311-316
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781475705638
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
EventIFIP TC 8 WG 8.9 International Conference on Research and Practical lssues of Enterprise Information Systems, CONFENIS 2007 - Beijing, China
Duration: 14 Oct 200716 Oct 2007

Publication series

NameIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume254 VOLUME 1
ISSN (Print)1868-4238

Conference

ConferenceIFIP TC 8 WG 8.9 International Conference on Research and Practical lssues of Enterprise Information Systems, CONFENIS 2007
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period14/10/0716/10/07

Keywords

  • Coordination mechanism
  • Organizational coordination theory
  • Resource estimation
  • Trust mechanism
  • Virtual enterprise

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