Establishing the Foundation of Collaborative Networks: Ifip Tc 5 Working Group 5.5 Eighth Ifip Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises September 10- (Paperback, 2007)

Trust Aspects in Collaboration.- Towards Establishing Trust Relationships among Organizations in VBEs.- Fostering R&D Collaboration - The Interplay of Trust, Appropriability and Absorptive Capacity.- Trust Building in Collaborative Networked Organizations Supported by Communities of Practice.- Performance and Value Systems.- Measuring Collaboration Performance in Virtual Organizations.- A Conceptual Model for Virtual Breeding Environments Value Systems.- Towards a Conceptual Model of Value Systems in Collaborative Networks.- Collaboration Network Analysis.- Network Analysis by the Codesnet Approach.- Assessment of Collaborative Networks Structural Stability.- A Decision Support Framework for Collaborative Networks.- VO Breeding Environment Enablers.- Towards Governance Rules and Bylaws for Virtual Breeding Environments.- Enabling Virtual Organizations in a Technological District.- In Search for an Innovative Business Model or How to be Successful in the Nowadays Business Environment.- The Role of Universities Developing New Collaborative Environments: Analysing the Virtuelle Fabrik, Swiss Microtech and the Tenet Group.- Elements of Breeding Environments Management.- Ontology Engineering in Virtual Breeding Environments.- Causal Cross-Impact Analysis as Strategic Planning Aid for Virtual Organisation Breeding Environments.- Assessing the Value of Mediators in Collaborative Business Networks.- VO Creation.- A Computer-Assisted VO Creation Framework.- Collaboration Opportunity Finder.- An Ontology-Based Approach for Selecting Performance Indicators for Partners Suggestion.- Multiple Criteria Partner Selection in Virtual Enterprises.- e-Contracting in Collaborative Network Scenarios.- Fundaments of Virtual Organization E-contracting.- Intelligent Contracting: Software Agents, Corporate Bodies and Virtual Organizations.- Agent-Based Contracting in Virtual Enterprises.- A Lawful Framework for Distributed Electronic Markets.- Learning and Inheritance in VO.- Towards Learning Collaborative Networked Organizations.- Identification of Forms and Components of VO Inheritance.- Establishing and Keeping Inter-Organisational Collaboration. Some Lessons Learned.- Architectures for Collaboration.- A Generic Strategic Layer for Collaborative Networks.- A Privacy-Based Brokering Architecture for Collaboration in Virtual Environments.- Virtual Power Producers Integration into Mascem.- Agent-Based Architecture for Virtual Enterprises to Support Agility.- Modelling Frameworks for Collaborative Networks.- Towards an Architecture Modeling Language for Networked Organizations.- Evolving Virtue.- Business Modelling for Knowledge Networks.- Business Benefits in Networks.- Distribution of Network Generated Profit by considering Individual Profit Expectations.- An Estimation Model for Business Benefits in Horizontal Collaborative Networks.- Examining the Antecedents to Innovation in Electronic Networks of Practice.- Professional Virtual Communities.- Support for Power in Adaptation of Social Protocols for Professional Virtual Communities.- Understanding Users' Response to Ontology Based Systems in the Context of an Enterprise Sponsored Virtual Community.- Continuous Management of Professional Virtual Community Inheritance Based on the Adaptation of Social Protocols.- Customer Involvement in Networks.- Virtual Customer Communities: An Innovative Case from the Media Industry.- The Impact of Customer Participation on Business Ecosystems.- Supporting Collaborative Work through Wireless Technologies Support in Patient Centric Virtual Organizations (PCVOS).- Social Network Analysis.- Social Network Analysis of Team Dynamics and Intra-Organizational Development in an Aerospace Firm.- The Tacit Dimensions of Collaborative Network Traffic.- Collaborative Services to Maintain Electronic Business Relationships.- Interoperability in Networks.- Towards Seamless Interoperability in Collaborative Networks.- Barriers Driven Methodology for Enterprise Interoperability.- A