Business Evolution and Enterprise Integration

Abstract

The development of a theory of design for virtual organisations or enterprises has been identified and presented in form of a potential research programme. The required results include a theory that explains the dynamic interactions among partners that create the virtual enterprise and a proposal for the representation of the result. Ensuing would be a methodology specialised to the case of the dynamic creation of enterprises using design transactions, typical models for the enterprise engineering process, typical models for virtual enterprises (to be reused in this process), and the potential extension of the enabling enterprise modelling languages and tools. Keywords Enterprise integration, virtual enterprise, business evolution, enterprise engineering 1 Introduction, background This group was assigned the task of identifying a major direction for future development in the area of enterprise integration. It was requested that the report of the discussions be presented in the form...