Key Research On Virtual Enterprise Creation Based On Cooperation Network

In the twenty-first century, economic globalization, technological progress and the diversification of customer needs make virtual enterprises widely created. Some independent enterprises form temporary alliances in the help of the information technology, aiming at building world-class competitiveness and responsing to business opportunities agily.As the virtual enterprise is a temporary alliance built on more than one enterprise, and its success strongly depends on all of the participating enterprises being capable of cooperating as a single unit[90]. In order to help the virtual organization planner to quickly create a virtual enterprise, this paper does researches on several key issues in the formation of the virtual enterprise. The main conclusions of this thesis include:First is the method of partner selection based on the cooperation network. The collaboration history records results of creating virtual enterprises in practice, which hides the law of survival of the fittest and reflects enterprises’subjective choices. By building the enterprise cooperation network, getting information of core competence and trust from network structure characteristics, and building the model according to three basic principles, the problem of the virtual enterprise’s partner selection is changed to the problem of search in the complex network. Comparing with existing methods, this new method can help the virtual organization planners find partners quickly and efficiently.Second is the method of identifying virtual organization breeding environments based on the cooperation network. Current studies argue that the virtual organization breeding environment is an effective way to quickly find partners and create the virtual enterprise. By building the enterprise cooperation network, refining common social requirements to all virtual organization breeding environments and turning them into network structure characteristics, the problem of the identification of virtual organization breeding environments is changed to the problem of detecting community structures in the complex network. The identification and formation of virtual organization breeding environments help reduce the time and cost of finding partners, establish basic trust between enterprises, build public infrastructure and common rules, which improve business agility and collaboration efficiency.Third is the instantiation methodology of the virtual enterprise. By integrating results from enterprise modeling and business modeling, the author proposes a new method, which includes five steps: value chain description, role identification, value configuration, business process modeling and cooperation design between humans in the virtual enterprise. This proposed method helps to quickly create virtual enterprises too.This thesis discusses how to quickly create a virtual enterprise from three respects, these new methods proposed by the author both makes up for lack of current researches and guide the practice.