An Organizational Concept for Collaborative Enterprise Networks

This article presents an organizational concept for the collaboration of micro and small enterprises. This concept is called Two-Level-Collaboration. This can be considered as a special form of Collaborative Enterprise Networks (CEN). A dynamic role concept is derived corresponding to the inner organizational principle of the Two-Level-Collaboration. CEN can be modularly designed by means of this role concept. The dynamic role concept postulates a conceptual separation of collaborative tasks to be realized and their organizational implementation. The single role-describing elements are defined and based on these, modules for the development of collaborative roles is being derived. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.