Negotiation models and production planning for virtual enterprises

摘要

A temporary networked enterprise (also denoted "virtual enterprise") is an emerging organization based upon relationships among firms, which decide to cooperate together in a given value chain for a limited time horizon. The crucial point in the development of said network is 'to search for partners" and organize interactions among firms. The paper aims to define some criteria for supporting the design of a virtual enterprise. The scope is to have simple conditions able to evaluate if cooperation among potential partner firms could be successfully stipulated, based on the likeness of their goals and the wideness of the connecting information pattern.