Enterprise governance and boundary decisions: The case of wireless technology

In this paper, the issue of boundary is investigated as an important enterprise governance problem. The Mechanism and systemic trends that affect the enterprise value chain are discussed from a system of systems perspective. Then, from the enterprise governance perspective, the value chain is divided into competition, collaboration, and observation. This division is considered as dynamic and is related to enterprise differentiating factors. The boundaries of these sections are analyzed based on a model developed within the new institutional economics framework. The paper ends with a case study for the boundary decision of the high quality wireless video service analyzed with the proposed model.