• DocumentCode
    2562271
  • Title

    IT-enabled affiliations as organizational forms

  • Author

    Nault, Barrie R. ; Dexter, Albert S.

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Sch. of Manage., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    18-20 Aug 1996
  • Firstpage
    419
  • Lastpage
    422
  • Abstract
    The authors have found that information technology allows the creation of virtual enterprises-thereby enabling new forms of organization. The paper addresses the problem where expertise about customers and physical assets are separate. Traditional organizations couple these two aspects, often overlooking the contribution externalities make to incentives. They describe how IT-enabled affiliations can employ the externalities to improve incentives and become more profitable
  • Keywords
    commerce; economics; information technology; investment; marketing; IT-enabled affiliations; customer expertise; externalities; incentives; information technology; organizational forms; physical asset expertise; virtual enterprises; Business; Communications technology; Contracts; Information technology; Investments; Monitoring; Profitability; Recruitment; Technology management; Virtual enterprises;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering and Technology Management, 1996. IEMC 96. Proceedings., International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Vancouver, BC
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3552-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMC.1996.547853
  • Filename
    547853