Negotiating and enacting contracts for business networks
Rittgen, Peter
Rittgen, Peter
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Publication Type
Journal article
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Supervisor
Publication Year
2007
Journal
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
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Publication Volume
13
Publication Issue
3
Publication Begin page
7
Publication End page
26
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Abstract
Flexibility is a major issue in business today and one answer to that is to organize work in networks of companies rather than within a single business. Cooperation between organizations is more easily established and adapted than reorganization of internal company structures. But how do we manage flexibility in such a network without sacrificing the minimum stability that is required for economic success? We suggest a method for coordinating interaction in a business network that provides three levels of flexibility: local ad-hoc change, global negotiated change and planned change. This method is based on the negotiation and enactment of process-based interorganizational contracts.