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| Author: | O'Leary, D. Kuokka, D. Plant, R. |
| Title: | Artificial intelligence and virtual organizations |
| Journal: | Communications of the ACM
1997 : JAN, VOL. 40:1, p. 52-59 |
| Index terms: | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATIONS NATURAL RESOURCES |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A virtual company has been defined as one where "complementary resources existing in a number of cooperating companies are left in place, but are integrated to support a particular product effort for as long as it is viable to do so... Resources are selectively allocated to the virtual company if they are underutilized or if they can be profitably utilized there more than in the "home" company. In addition virtual organizations are designed to facilitate three types of capabilities: create or assemble productive resources quickly; create or assemble them frequently and concurrently; and create or assemble a wide range of productive resources. |
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