A Culturally-Attuned Distributed Decision Making Model of Global Virtual Teams in World Summit on the Information Society

Author(s):  
N Zakaria ◽  
D L Cogburn
2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiqin Tang ◽  
Weimin Tang ◽  
Changsheng Jiang ◽  
Shan Lu

Since the “agriculture super-docking” mode was introduced in China in 2007, remarkable success has been made in reducing the transaction cost and improving the quality safety of agricultural products. However, the quality safety issues of agricultural products still occur frequently because both specialized farmers’ cooperatives and supermarkets have insufficient safety investment. In order to study the necessity, goal, and incentive decision schemes of safety investment in “agriculture super-docking” supply chain, three kinds of models, which include noncooperatives distributed decision-making model, centralized decision-making model, and incentive coordination models led by cooperatives and supermarkets, are, respectively, set up in this paper. Conclusions are drawn as follows: when making the uncooperative decentralized decision, both cooperatives and supermarkets have the moral risks to decrease the safety investment, but appropriate measures can achieve the coordination of the supply chain; when achieving the coordination of supply chain, the two contacts under the guidance of cooperatives and supermarkets are the same, and the schemes of distributing profits are also the same. Moreover, a practical case is given to improve the effectiveness and feasibility of the incentive decision schemes.


Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Zhaoying Ouyang

Virtual enterprise is a dynamic alliance of businesses, in which multiple members undertake joint research, development, manufacturing, operation, etc. The complexity of the relationship between business members, coupled with many new technologies or methods applied in the alliance operation, leads to more uncertain factors and difficulties in the operation and risk management of the virtual enterprise. The distributed decision-making model is a fast and effective decision-making model, in which dispersed intellectual resources and information resources are dynamically integrated through virtual organization forms and operating mechanisms, and the dynamic reorganization, result evaluation, and synthesis of the decision-making system are realized by certain control rules. On the basis of summarizing and analyzing previous research works, this paper expounded the research status and significance of the risk control of virtual enterprise; elaborated the development background, current status, and future challenges of distributed decision-making model; introduced the related works of decision-making variable calculation and constraint determination; constructed a risk control model for virtual enterprise based on distributed decision-making model; analyzed the multiobjective model and interval programming model of risk control; established a risk control approach for virtual enterprise based on distributed decision-making model; performed the optimal allocation of risk control funds and the selective optimization of backup allies; and finally conducted a case analysis. The study results show that, in view of the diversity of relationships between alliance businesses and the complexity of the distribution of cooperative areas, the distributed decision-making model can more reasonably describe the relationship between alliance members and accurately control the risks of virtual enterprise from multiple angles, which can effectively manage the risks of virtual enterprise. The study results of this paper provide a reference for further research on the risk control of virtual enterprise based on distributed decision-making model.


Author(s):  
William P. Birmingham ◽  
Joseph G. D’Ambrosio

Abstract We have developed a formal process for concurrent engineering that maximizes concurrency in the CE enterprise through decentralized, distributed decision making, and optimizes across the CE enterprise by (minimally) coordinating design and manufacturing decisions by enforcing feasibility and preferential dependencies. We call this process hierarchical concurrent engineering (HCE). A central idea in this work is decentralization (and concomitant distribution), where we attempt to minimally control the actions (decision making) of engineers. The HCE decision-making model is a way of describing the network of decision processes needed for a CE enterprise. This model extends traditional “influence diagrams” as it incorporates constraints and multiple decision makers. We also present a software agent architecture that implements the HCE decision model, and we show how this model naturally leads to design processes, which are sequences of coordinated decisions.


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