Fundaments of virtual organization E-contracting

Abstract

E-contracts have been broadly used to improve business-to-business collaboration. Different e-contracting activities have been identified to support e-contract establishment and e-contract fulfillment. In virtual organization domain, there exist different types of virtual organizations. Each of them has different purposes, missions and goals. As an important step in a virtual organization creation process, how e-contracting activities work in different types virtual organization is still blurred. In this article we examine specific requirements of e-contracting activities for different types of virtual organization. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.