Authors:
Heiko Thimm
1
;
Kathrin Thimm
1
and
Karsten Boye Rasmussen
2
Affiliations:
1
Institute for Business Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences Kiel, Germany
;
2
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Keyword(s):
Business Process, Company Network, Collaborative Business, Collaboration Platform, Company Selection,
Cross-Company Collaboration, Moderator, Network-Actor, Partner Selection, Orchestration, Production Network, Small or Medium Sized Enterprise, SME, Virtual Organization.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
B2B, B2C and C2C
;
B2C/B2B Considerations
;
Business and Social Applications
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
e-Procurement and Web-Based Supply Chain Management
;
Internet and Collaborative Computing
;
Intranet and Extranet Business Applications
;
Market-Spaces: Market Portals, Hubs, Auctions
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
More and more companies improve their sustainability by belonging to company networks. When a specific inquiry is directed towards the company network required is a selection of companies that partner- up in a mixture of supplementing or even overlapping companies to form a virtual organization. The selection of partners is a challenging task for the network moderator and poor results - producing less value for the participating selected companies - as well as unintelligible results - that confuse the companies - can jeopardize the network. Therefore, we outline a web-based solution where the information technology supports the moderator by providing not only an optimized solution of the selected companies but also makes the management process transparent and traceable thus building a firmer future ground for the network.