NetworkEnterprise


 * Network Enterprise** (pg.141, Information Society Reader)

"At the heart of the connectivity of the global economy and of the flexibility of infomational capitalism, there is a new form of organization, characteristic of economic activity, but gradually extending its logic to other domains and organizations: the __**"Network Enterprise".**__ "

According to Castells' reading:


 * A network made from either firms or segments of firms or from internal segmentation of firms.
 * Multi-national corporations, with their internal decentralization and their links with a web of subsidiaries and suppliers throughout the world.
 * Stategic alliances between corporations, networks of small and medium businesses and link-ups between corporations and networks of small businesses through subcontracting and outsourcing.
 * *Specific set of linkages between different firms or segments, organized improvised for a specific project, and dissolving/reforming after the task is completed e.g. IBM, Siemens, Toshiba – the Project around which a network of partners in built, is the actual operating unit of our economy, the one that generates profits or losses, the one that received awards or goes bust, the one that hires, lays off, via its member organizations
 * According to Castell, Networks are collaborative rather than competitive. There is a move from mass production to flexible production and an accompanying shift from vertical bureaucracies to the horizontal corporation.
 * This interchange among companies form alliance in order to promote their own service. By sustaining each other they both reap benefits.
 * Networking promotes global economy because it expands information, information networks, and databanks.
 * (example. Google, it promotes as service,and is financially supported by advertisers)

Webster, Frank, Raimo Blom, Erkki Karvonen, Harri Melin, Karrle Nordenstreng, and Puoskari Ensio. __The Information Society Reader__. 2nd ed. London: Rouledge Student Readers, 2002. 141.
 * -Network Enterprise:**
 * Characterized of economic activity, but gradually extending its logic to other domains and organizations
 * Networks made either form firms or segments of firms, or from internal segmentation of firms.
 * Multinational corporations, with their internal decentralization, and their links with a web of subsidiaries and suppliers throughout the world, are but one of the forms of this network enterprise.
 * Others include: strategic alliances between corporations, networks of small and medium businesses, and link-ups between corporations and networks of small businesses through subcontracting and outsourcing
 * Network Enterprise is the specific set of linkages between different firms or segments, organized as hoc for a specific project, and dissolving/reforming after the task is completed. E.g. IBM, Siemens, Toshiba.
 * This is actual operating unit of out economy, generates profits or losses, received rewards or goes bust, hires and lays off via its member organizations.
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