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The author is involved in a multi-year program to establish a number of large- scale SME collaboration projects. It was anticipated that some web-based tools, used previously could be adapted, but limits in the participant firm capabilities and the emergence of a different business model led to a change in approach. In this paper an adaptation of the notion of absorptive capacity where both a firm’s resource base and its knowledge base are considered is used as a framework to better understand participant requirements in building a web-based Virtual Enterprise support system.
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Beckett, R.C. (2006). Issues of Participant Absorptive Capacity in Establishing Virtual Enterprise Operations. In: Network-Centric Collaboration and Supporting Frameworks. PRO-VE 2006. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 224. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-38269-2_9
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