The Nature Of The Virtual Enterprise, Design And Build Discussion

As an interfirm organization,the virtual enterprise has ful ly showed great vitality in the past ten years．Some scholars even foretell that the virtual enterprise will be the main form of organization in the 2 1 st century．Following the creation of new techniques,the development of institutions and the evolution of culture,the virtual enterprise characterized by dynamism and flexibility is fit for the changing economic environments．Besides,compared with other forms of organization,the virtual enterprise may have low organization costs and high net profits due to its special organizational culture and mechanism．This thesis analyzes two questions on the virtual enterprise in terms of the new institutional economics,behavioral science,game theory,management and SO on．(1) The nature of the virtual enterprise．After building the model of organization selection, I compare the virtue of the virtual enterprise with that of the market,firms in the realistic economic background,and I confirm that the change of environments determines the selection of the virtual enterprise．In addition,I analyze the border of the virtual enterprise,which I mean is not the scale or scope of it but the extent to which firms,composing the virtual enterprise,can separate their organizational function．So,that is the shrinking border of firms．(2)The construction of the virtual enterprise．At first,the operation of the virtual enterprise and the steady mechanism of maintaining this operation are analyzed．Then,through the analyses of the organizational norms,the life circle,the thoughts of design,the building of internal environments and organizational structure of the virtual enterprise I draw some valuable conclusions． On the end of the thesis,I introduce two cases about the virtual enterprise,from which we can understand how the virtue of the virtual enterprise is realized and that the more important is to avoid the pitfalls when choosing the virtual operations...