1. The competence-based view on the management of virtual web organizations / Ulrich Franke -- 2. Which way is forward? direction and control in virtual space / Malcolm Warner, Morgen Witzel -- 3. The virtual corporation and trust / Wendy Jansen, Hans Jagers, Wilchard Steenbakkers -- 4. The metamorphosis to dynamic trading networks and virtual corporations / Howard Richards, Harris Makatsoris -- 5. The virtual web-based supply chain / Ashok Chandrashekar, Philip Schary -- 6. Towards a framework for managing the business-to-business e-commerce chain / Vincent Wade ... [et al.] -- 7. Value webs / Dorian Selz, Stefan Klein -- 8. Web organizations in the professional services sector / Hugo Meijers -- 9. A survey of distributed information management approaches for virtual enterprise infrastructures / Cesar Garita, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, L. Hertzberger -- 10. Global Manufacturing Virtual Network (GMVN) / Yongjiang Shi, Mike Gregory -- 11. Networks of SMEs as virtual web organizations / Roberto Tononi, Gianfrancesco Amorosi -- 12. Applying a core competencies approach in virtual enterprise formation / Carlos Bremer, Jairo Moraes Siqueira, Luis Moraes Marques -- 13. Managing dynamic virtual enterprises using FIPA agents / Vaggelis Ouzounis -- 14. A planning and scheduling methodology for the virtual enterprise / Florent Frederix -- 15. A basic approach towards cost accounting for virtual web organizations / Tim Veil, Thomas Hess -- 16. Evaluating the success of virtual corporations with CONECT / Oliver Wohlgemuth, Thomas Hess --17. What regulation for virtual organizations? / Claudia Cevenini.