18th ICPR submission - A conceptual framework for enterprise management

Mario Binder (1) , Ben Clegg (1)

1 Operations & Information Management Group (OIM)

This paper reports on the theoretical foundations and the practical reasons for the increasing popularity of the enterprise management perspective. Theoretical foundations are given that discuss vertically integrated, virtual and extended enterprises in terms of endogenous and exogenous factors and the tensions that this creates. An exploratory study in the German automotive industry using inductive grounded theory was conducted involving data collection via 28 semi-structured interviews with 16 companies and data validation via a questionnaire survey receiving 110 responses from 52 companies. The research delivers a conceptual framework to show how enterprise structures emerge depending on the prevailing type of core competencies that they use. Furthermore it proposes contingency planning recommendations to facilitate managing the change from one structure to another as the demands placed upon the enterprise change.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Mario Binder, Ben Clegg. 18th ICPR submission - A conceptual framework for enterprise management. International Journal of Production Research, 2006, 44 (18-19), pp.3813-3829. ⟨10.1080/00207540600786673⟩. ⟨hal-00512916⟩