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The governance of virtual corporations

The concept of the virtual corporation (VC), which describes a modern form of collaboration among organizations, was introduced in the scientific discussion in the mid 1990th. The practice shows that VCs need new forms of governance because the traditional mechanisms of control, management, and steering are hardly applicable. Until now there is only a few research related to the question how to govern VC. The main problems to govern a VC are to coordinate the communication among dispersed partners and to motivate employees to actively involve themselves into the network. Open source projects are confronted with similar problems. As several governance mechanisms are already analyzed in this context, the authors analyze and adopt governance concepts from open source projects to extract a governance framework for virtual corporations. This new approach leads to innovative insights in governing virtual corporations by using community techniques as an appropriate way for communication and collaboration purposes.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:1998
Date January 2007
CreatorsLattemann, Christoph, Kupke, Sören, Stieglitz, Stefan, Fetscherin, Marc
PublisherUniversität Potsdam, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Source SetsPotsdam University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypePostprint
Formatapplication/pdf
SourceThe Journal of E-Business. - 6 (2006), 2 - 7 (2007), 1, pp. 53 - 64. - ISSN 1542 0846
Rightshttp://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php

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