What is Virtual Enterprise

1. A dynamically reconfigurable global networked organization, networked enterprise, or network of enterprises, sharing information and/or knowledge, skills, core competencies, market and other resources and processes, configured (or constituted) as a temporary alliance (or network) to meet a (fast changing) market window of opportunity, presenting as main characteristics agility, virtuality, distributivity, and integrability Learn more in: Market of Resources: A Cost and Effort Model
2. Formalized collaboration between two or more autonomous organizations for the achievement of a specific business goal. Learn more in: Systems for Interorganizational Business Process Management
3. A virtual enterprise (VE) is a temporary alliance of enterprises that come together to share skills or core competencies and resources in order to better respond to business opportunities, and whose cooperation is supported by computer networks. It is a manifestation of collaborative networks and a particular case of virtual organization (Wikipedia, 2007). Learn more in: Semi Virtual Workplaces in German Financial Service Enterprises
4. A group of autonomous firms that form a single temporary company; each group of firms has a range of problem solving capabilities and resources at their disposal. Learn more in: Web-Based Business Reporting in Virtual Enterprises
5. A temporary business organization set up between trading partners operating from geographically dispersed sites, for the duration of a common project. The design and manufacture of new products or services frequently requires the talents of many specialists. When many corporations combine their specialties to create a product or service, the result can be called a virtual enterprise. A virtual enterprise must be able to form quickly in response to new opportunities and dissolve just as quickly when the need ceases. Learn more in: Trust Management in Virtual Product Development Networks
6. A temporary partnership between several enterprises with a specific set of goals. Learn more in: Improving Application Decoupling in Virtual Enterprise Integration
7. A Virtual Enterprise (VE) is a temporary alliance of enterprises that come together to share skills or core competencies and resources in order to better respond to business opportunities, and whose cooperation is supported by Internet and Communication Technologies. Learn more in: An Agent-Based Operational Virtual Enterprise Framework enabled by RFID
8. A new form of economic undertaking where several actors associate their strengths to provide specific products and services traditionally provided by a single enterprise. Learn more in: Virtual Enterprise Environments for Scientific Experiments
9. The authors define the virtual enterprise as globally dispersed entities enabled by ICT. The collective term encompasses corporations, small businesses, non-profit institutions, government bodies, and possibly other kinds of organizations. Learn more in: Evaluating Virtual Organisational Preparedness
10. A dynamically reconfigurable global networked organization, networked enterprise, or network of enterprises, sharing information and/or knowledge, skills, core competencies, market and other resources and processes, configured (or constituted) as a temporary alliance (or network) to meet a (fast changing) market window of opportunity, presenting as main characteristics agility, virtuality, distributivity, and integrability Learn more in: Market of Resources: Opportunities Domain
11. A new form of economic undertaking where several actors associate their strengths to provide specific products and services traditionally provided by a single enterprise. Learn more in: Networked Experiments in Global E-Science
12. Set of economic actors, mainly enterprises, that combine their strengths to provide a specific service traditionally provided by a single enterprise. Learn more in: Service-Oriented Architectures and ESB in VE Integration
13. A temporary confederation of independent companies linked by shared information, skills, costs, and access to one another’s markets. They have an evolving corporate model that will be flexible enough to exploit a specific opportunity. Learn more in: Managing the Dynamic Reconfiguration of Enterprises
14. An enterprise computerization configuration in which most employees work from home. Learn more in: Digital Business Strategies
15. A dynamically reconfigurable global networked organization, networked enterprise, or network of enterprises, sharing information and/or knowledge, skills, core competencies, market and other resources and processes, configured (or constituted) as a temporary alliance (or network) to meet a (fast changing) market window of opportunity, presenting as its main characteristics agility, virtuality, distributivity, and integrability Learn more in: Market of Resources: Supporting Technologies
16. Temporary group of parts of different organizations exploiting a short-term high-risk opportunity. Virtual enterprises (VEs) tend to be very agile and based on new innovative technology. Learn more in: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems and Multi-Organizational Enterprise (MOE) Strategy
17. A temporary alliance of enterprises that aim to share resources and skills in order to respond better and faster to emerging opportunities in the market, based on a technical infrastructure and information technologies represented by communications/computer networks Learn more in: Virtual Enterprise Network Solutions and Monitoring as Support for Geographically Dispersed Business
18. A temporary alliance of enterprises that aim to share resources and skills in order to respond better and faster to emerging opportunities in the market, based on a technical infrastructure and information technologies represented by communications/computer networks. Learn more in: The WiMAX Network Solutions for Virtual Enterprises Business Network
19. The authors define the virtual enterprise as globally dispersed entities enabled by ICT. The collective term encompasses corporations, small businesses, non-profit institutions, government bodies, and possibly other kinds of organizations. Learn more in: Evaluating Organisational Readiness for Virtual Collaboration
20. Temporary alliance of enterprises that come together to share skills and resources in order to better respond to business opportunities, and whose cooperation is supported by computer networks. Learn more in: Application of Collaborative Technologies: Enterprise 2.0 in Virtual Enterprise Context