Competency Rallying Processes in Virtual Organizations [chapter]

Bernard Katzy, Kevin Crowston
IFIP International Federation for Information Processing  
Firms face an environment changing at an increasingly rapid pace. Unfortunately, the speed at which organizations can adapt their strategies and competencies to exploit such opportunities remains limited. In this paper we weave together an external perspective on market-facing with an internal perspective on competency development and marshalling to describe the organizational activities necessary for firms to cooperate within a virtual organization. We argue that firms can address their
more » ... ual limitations through a systematic process that we call "competence rallying," with which they can access market opportunities and additional needed competencies. Specifically, we present a local process theory of how one network of firms reliably engineers and delivers manufacturing projects using an interorganizational process that works to meet short-term market opportunities. Our theory is grounded in the experiences of the Virtuelle Fabrik project, an organized network for regional cooperation in the manufacturing industry around the Bodensee in Europe. The success of manufacturing projects in a
doi:10.1007/978-0-387-73025-7_7 dblp:conf/ifip8-2/KatzyC07 fatcat:muplupg3vva2tntnslzse2zb2m