Enterprise modeling of a project-oriented fractal company for SMEs networking |
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| Affiliation: | 1. UTN, Facultad Regional Santa Fe, Argentina;2. CONICET, Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño, Avellaneda 3657, Santa Fe (S3002GJC), Santa Fe, Argentina;1. Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory 7925, South Africa;2. Department of Biophysics, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil;1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University (I.A.U), Bushehr, Iran;2. Department of Physics, Masjed-Soleiman Branch, Islamic Azad University (I.A.U), Masjed-Soleiman, Iran;3. Department of Physics, Ahwaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahwaz, Iran;4. Low Dimensional Materials Research Center, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;1. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Education, 404B Jodhpur Park, Kolkata 700068, India;2. Physics Department, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032, India;3. Division of Virology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, West Bengal, India;1. School of Geography and the Environment and Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, United Kingdom;2. Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, 235 Jones Street, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia;1. EPSRC “Frontier Engineering” Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering & Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom;2. Electrochemical Innovation Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom;3. National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 0LW, United Kingdom;1. Hitotsubashi University, Japan;2. Nihon University, College of Commerce and Graduate School of Business Administration, Japan;3. Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Japan;4. German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Japan |
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| Abstract: | To address competitive threats and concentrate in their core competences and strengths networking is the alternative of choice for survival and prosperity of most small and medium enterprises (SMEs) all over the world. For networking advantages to be fully grasped, an enterprise model describing the main organizational structure and relationships, information flows, management roles, actor behavior and constraints in the network is required. This work presents a conceptual model for SMEs networking based on the fractal company approach and concepts like projects, resources, goals, specialized actors, plans, and relationships thereof. The fractal company idea is a conceptual enterprise design that seeks to achieve a high degree of flexibility to react and adapt quickly to environmental changes using decentralized and autonomous organizational units known as fractals. In this work, each fractal management unit is modeled as a project. The fractal company is thus seen as a temporary set of client–server and delegation-to-do relationships among project-managers interacting so as to diversify product portfolio, gain economy of scale and share expensive costs. The proposed enterprise model can be used to specify the requirements of an integrated information and management system for virtual SMEs networking. The enterprise model is exemplified using a case study related to process development of a new pharmaceutical product in a SME network of the specialty chemical sector. |
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