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Book Review: Cooperative Strategy

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

Cooperative strategy is the attempt by organizations to realize their objectives through cooperation rather than in competition with them, focusing on the benefits of cooperation. I used Cooperative Strategy in preparing for my book chapter on risks in virtual enterprise networks, where two chapters in this book were particularly useful: Networks (Chapter 8) and Virtual Corporations (Chapter 9). My review focuses on these two chapters. I did browse the other chapters in the book, although I did not read them as intensively as chapter 8 and 9, which obviously were the chapters I read most.

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Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks

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Revised on: 2015-10-03

Done…I finally made it! Today I submitted my full chapter for the book on Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles. All I can do now is anxiously await the reviewers’ verdict. Followers of this blog will already have noticed some of my posts on Virtual Enterprise Networks, and wonder why I am suddenly deviating (albeit only slightly) from the main thrust of my blog, namely supply chain risk and transportation.

 

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Jumpstart your VEN adventure

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Revised on: 2011-03-06

This is a terrific book. As you will know from my post  the other day, I am currently writing a book chapter on risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks (VENs), and I have used The Networked Enterprise by Ken Thompson as what I would call THE reference on how to manage VENs. The goal of a VEN is to connect Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) into peer networks, supported by appropriate collaboration practices and technologies, to give them the capabilities and competitive advantages of large global enterprises. How is this possible?

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Understanding risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks

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Revised on: 2011-07-06

Today’s unstable and highly competitive business environment has created a shift in how enterprises are established and managed, where past “traditional” enterprises are replaced by new “virtual” enterprises, forming temporary networks of independent companies or Virtual Enterprise Networks (VENs) that  share skills, costs and access to each other’s market. I am currently writing a book chapter for the book Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles, which is about risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks (VENs), and here are some the ideas that have come to my mind when trying to connect risks in supply chains with risks in VENs.

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