Enterprise Networks

Abstract

Enterprise networks give rise to new economic entities of investigation that can be considered as unitary third-level forms, distinct from persons taken as expressions of first-level entities and from enterprises taken as second-level individualities. In these third-level aggregations the concept of network is once again helpful in building up a shared atmosphere among the enterprises that belong to the aggregation. It is an atmosphere always characterized by operative aspects in the sense that it induces individual forms of behavior that resemble one another and are thus able to build up a common culture.