It is not unusual for suppliers in a supply chain to come together and act as a Virtual Enterprise Network (VEN) and today’s supply chains exhibit many VEN-like features. Is managing risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks different from managing risks in supply chains? With this in mind I submitted a paper to MITIP2009, the 11th International Conference on the Modern Information Technology in the Innovation Processes of the Industrial Enterprises, to be held in Bergamo, Italy, in October.
A conceptual framework
The title of the paper is From Risks in Supply Chains to Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Ideas, Concepts and a Framework.
Conceptual in its approach and drawing from other areas of research, this paper introduces four distinct groups of VENS, namely Constrained, Directed, Limited and Free VEN, and concludes that VEN risk management can and should learn from supply chain risk management. The abstract was accepted and I have now submitted my final paper. The final paper will be made available on this website after the conference.
The paper is largely based on my submission for a book chapter titled A Conceptual Framework for Risk and Vulnerability in Virtual Enterprise Networks for the book on Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles
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Jan Husdal MITIP 2009 by janhusdal
Links
- MITIP 2009: Conference website
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