INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN MANAGEMENT V - SGGW

Taking under consideration all required connection, which are necessary for
companies to operate on the market, three kinds of network could be defined:
� demand - it is relating to companies connections with their customers, to
gathering new fields of economic activities and retaining purchasers,
� supply – it is strictly relating to co operational connection which are using
to the process of goods and services delivering,
� support - it is strictly relating to relations of supporting relation among
network members.
Next classification has been proposed by A. Jurga, who distinctive the following
kinds of network organization 7 :
� suppliers chain, a network of sub-suppliers, which are definite link of production
chain, concentrating around producers of final products (the network
creators),
� “star” network, which used to be creating for realization of long term and
very often unrepeated economic projects. The coordinator of the network
possesses strong, leader, position. In this case all partners are selected
complementary, the projects budget is managed be the leader and flexible
reconfiguration of all network organization’s members also take place,
� “Peer-to-Peer” network is based on the systems of communication and coordination
accordance to the rule “one – to – one” and on personal relation
among network participants. The coordinator is responsible for network
creating, member selections, contracts concluding, product selling and
network organization representing in the outside.
It seems that the best examples of such operating network organization, from
authors point of view, are; Centers of Advanced Technologies, Technological
Platforms, products groups and of course clusters.
The development of network organization and the growth of economical usage
of the Internet has caused that the meaning of network organization assume new,
virtual, dimension called virtual organization. Widely telling a virtual organization
is that one, which possess the following features 8 :
� free transfer of resources among network organization units,
� diversity of connection among companies and institution from hierarchical,
by hybrid (specially strategic alliances) to loosely market contacts,
� limited range of integrations of companies and institutions – members of
virtual organization,
� crating and building up formal and informal channels of communication.
7 S.Lachiewicz, Komunikacja wewnętrzna…, op.cit, p. 17.
8 Compare J. Cygler, Organizacje sieciowe jako forma współpracy przedsiębiorstw, in M.
Romanowska, M. Trocki red, Przedsiębiorstwo partnerskie, Difin, Warszawa 2002, pp. 147-150.
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