Section I: Organizational Requirements -- 1. Environments for Virtual Enterprise Integration -- 2. Service Engineering and Extended Artefact Delivery -- 3. Offshoring: Evolution or Revolution --

Section II: Models and Architectures -- 4. How Should Enterprises Integrate? From the Need to the Solution -- 5. A Generation of Moderators from Single Product to Global E-Supply -- 6. Integrating Business Processes and Information Systems in an Interorganizational Context --

Section III: Virtual Organization Management -- 7. The Organisation of Performance Measurement in an Extended Enterprise -- 8. Process-Driven Business Integration Management for Collaboration Networks -- 9. The Role of Ambiguity in the Transfer of Knowledge within Organizational Networks -- 10. Systemic Innovation Capability: The Case Study of Embraer, the Brazilian Aircraft Manufacturer -- 11. I-Accounting: An Adaptive Approach (Method + Practices) to Account for Intangibles --

Section IV: Technologies and Infrastructures -- 12. Enabling the Virtual Organization with Agent Technology -- 13. Enterprise Organisational Structure Integration and Service-Oriented Architectures -- 14. Knowledge Creation and Adaptive Collaboration Based on XML Web Services -- 15. Software Agent Technology for Supporting Ad Hoc Virtual Enterprises -- 16. Business Networking: The Technological Infrastructure Support -- About the Authors -- Index.