Virtual organization networking strategies - Simulations experiments

Abstract

In recent years, all kinds of networks, especially social and business ones, have been developing very dynamically. The increase in their importance is mainly caused by the popularization of information technology [2]. The Internet, as a means of communication and a platform of business interactions, has caused commercial cooperation and exchange to get a global dimension. The participants of networks share their resources and carry out investments (e.g. technology development, market research, launching new products), which may improve the competitiveness of individual parties as well as the whole network. The main contribution of this paper is the presentation of networking strategies representing different approach to business cooperation. The authors have built and verified a simulation model. The results of the simulation experiments have allowed to analyze the structures of the networks which depend on networking strategies. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.