This book provides a broadly managerial perspective on key trends that affect business decision-making in Central and Eastern Europe twenty years after the beginning of the region’s transition to ...market economy. Reflecting different viewpoints, including economic, social, and political approaches, the essays helps managers of the region to understand better both regional and the global forces influencing their businesses – as well as to bring to their attention relevant cutting-edge approaches to business thinking and decision-making.
Enterprises are surviving in a digital transitioning society, where the creation of strategic alliances is one important result of this constant change during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) ...pandemic. A medium of conducting business where organizations can share their main capabilities in order to strive in a pandemic is the creation of Virtual Enterprises (VE). But despite increasing research interest in VE, there is still lacunae in understanding the conceptualization of digitalization of VE operations during crises. Therefore, this provides a review of extant literature and meta-analysis of 55 VE research articles to present the theoretical underpinning concept of VE digitalization.
•Rationale, definitions and foundations of Enterprise Modelling are presented.•A chronological history of Enterprise Modelling is given, pointing out major contributions, methods and ...frameworks.•Essential modelling constructs for enterprise modelling are identified and their structure is presented in the Appendix.•Directions for future research are identified and discussed.
Enterprise models are essential for the understanding, analysis, engineering, improvement, optimisation, maintenance and even management and control of enterprise systems. In that sense, Enterprise Modelling is foundational for Enterprise Engineering, Integration and Management and closely associated to Enterprise Architectures. This synthesis paper reviews and summarises important research works and contributions made to Enterprise Modelling over the last four decades, outlining major modelling constructs and their extensions as well as prominent modelling tools and methods and discussing future developments in the context of smart manufacturing or Industry 4.0.
This study explores whether or not a firm’s ownership status, as state-owned enterprise (SOE) or private-owned enterprise (POE), will influence its likelihood of engaging in illegality in China. We ...build our arguments on the institution-based view, positing that firms rationally pursue their interests in the distinct institutional context of China. Compared to SOEs, POEs have limited access to institutional resources, the lack of which threatens their development or even survival, forcing them to “break rules” to overcome institutional barriers. We thus suggest that POEs demonstrate a higher propensity to engage in illegal actions than SOEs do. However, if POEs could gain access to more institutional resources, their motivation to engage in illegal actions is likely to decrease. Following this logic, we suggest that political connections and market development will mitigate the likelihood that POEs will engage in illegal actions. We find support for our predictions using evidence from Chinese listed manufacturers. Our research contributes to the literature by revealing the institutional aspects of corporate illegality in transitional economies.
•The concept of the Sensing, Smart and Sustainable (S^3) Enterprise System is introduced to highlight medium and long-term trends for next generation enterprise information systems (EIS) in the ...domain of enterprise modelling, integration and networking.•The S^3 Enterprise System is not static but evolves over time, and EIS need to support complexity, learning of smart agents and the overall evolution in the S^3-Enterprise.•From an architectures and languages point of view the concept of “services” needs to be integrated, supporting model-driven engineering and model-based operation.•For better decision making, existing architectures have to be extended towards an enterprise operating system. To support interoperability between different models a common core ontology is needed.•For education and management of modelling processes new methods are needed. These methods need to cover collaboration, management of enterprise architectures to improve the use of architectures and models.
As technology advances and thus Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) evolve, a new enterprise model must be devised to face future digital enterprise needs. This paper discusses issues and emerging trends that must be addressed if a true sensing and smart enterprise is to be achieved to meet sustainability requirements. Methods are required to capture enterprise reality and to provide a seamless interoperable digital enterprise model. The paper summarises several challenges to be addressed by future research in enterprise modelling. Challenges are discussed from the Enterprise, Information, Computational, Engineering and Technological points of view, according to the ODP-RM (Open Distributed Processing—Reference Model). To some extent, progress on some challenges has already been made and solutions are expected to materialise in the near future. Other challenges have only recently been identified and potential solutions cannot yet be predicted. The paper offers a discussion of these challenges for the future enterprise along with the required enterprise model; it also introduces the concept of the Sensing, Smart and Sustainable (S^3) Enterprise System. The position paper expresses opinions derived from the existing general research priorities and directions identified by the International Federation for Automatic Control–Technical Committee on Enterprise Integration and Networking (IFAC–TC 5.3).
This study analyses Chinese enterprises' outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) from the perspectives of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and home-country enterprise heterogeneity. It analyses ...the roles of BRI and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in China's OFDI using enterprise-level data for 2008-2017 from China Global Investment Tracker on Chinese enterprises' OFDI in 128 countries. The results show that the roles of the BRI or AIIB in Chinese enterprises' OFDI varies based on the ownership system of home country enterprises. BRI significantly affected the OFDI of central state-owned enterprises (SOEs) representing the national strategy, but not that of private enterprises. Interestingly, BRI implementation did not promote local SOEs' OFDI significantly. Since local SOEs drive the local economy and obtain profits, they act similarly to private enterprises in investment selection.
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