TY - GEN
T1 - Implementation framework for collaboration in a non-hierarchical business network
AU - Shamsuzzoha, Ahm
AU - Kankaanpää, Timo
AU - Carneiro, Luis
AU - Helo, Petri T.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The growing trend of business collaboration exerts an extra pressure on global business communities. This collaboration can be evolved in the form of hierarchical and no-hierarchical. In this research, we have considered non-hierarchical collaboration, where manufacturing firms' especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs) enjoy equal power and freedom within their networks. In order to develop such business collaboration, SMEs need to adopt different procedural steps such as build, qualify, form, operate and dissolve. In such circumstances, in this article we have proposed an implementation framework or methodology to demonstrate the logical approaches of the formation and operation of a collaborative business network. The formation and operation of this collaboration is illustrated through a complex engineer-to-order (ETO) case product. The common goals and understanding of the successful non-hierarchical business collaborations and future research directions are concluded within the scope of this paper.
AB - The growing trend of business collaboration exerts an extra pressure on global business communities. This collaboration can be evolved in the form of hierarchical and no-hierarchical. In this research, we have considered non-hierarchical collaboration, where manufacturing firms' especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs) enjoy equal power and freedom within their networks. In order to develop such business collaboration, SMEs need to adopt different procedural steps such as build, qualify, form, operate and dissolve. In such circumstances, in this article we have proposed an implementation framework or methodology to demonstrate the logical approaches of the formation and operation of a collaborative business network. The formation and operation of this collaboration is illustrated through a complex engineer-to-order (ETO) case product. The common goals and understanding of the successful non-hierarchical business collaborations and future research directions are concluded within the scope of this paper.
KW - Business collaboration
KW - Business community
KW - Partners' evaluation
KW - Product customization
KW - SMEs
KW - Virtual organization
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U2 - 10.1109/IEEM.2010.5674283
DO - 10.1109/IEEM.2010.5674283
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78751680252
SN - 9781424485031
T3 - IEEM2010 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
SP - 2254
EP - 2258
BT - IEEM2010 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
T2 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM2010
Y2 - 7 December 2010 through 10 December 2010
ER -