PARTNER SELECTION FOR VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION - Supporting the Moderator in Business Networks

Heiko Thimm, Kathrin Thimm, Karsten Boye Rasmussen

2008

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.

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Thimm H., Thimm K. and Boye Rasmussen K. (2008). PARTNER SELECTION FOR VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION - Supporting the Moderator in Business Networks . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-39-5, pages 119-126. DOI: 10.5220/0001696701190126


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Heiko Thimm and Kathrin Thimm and Karsten Boye Rasmussen},
title={PARTNER SELECTION FOR VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION - Supporting the Moderator in Business Networks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={119-126},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001696701190126},
isbn={978-989-8111-39-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - PARTNER SELECTION FOR VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION - Supporting the Moderator in Business Networks
SN - 978-989-8111-39-5
AU - Thimm H.
AU - Thimm K.
AU - Boye Rasmussen K.
PY - 2008
SP - 119
EP - 126
DO - 10.5220/0001696701190126