TY - GEN A1 - Lattemann, Christoph A1 - Kupke, Sören A1 - Stieglitz, Stefan A1 - Fetscherin, Marc T1 - The governance of virtual corporations N2 - The concept of the virtual corporation (VC), which describes a modern form of collaboration among organizations, was introduced in the scientific discussion in the mid 1990th. The practice shows that VCs need new forms of governance because the traditional mechanisms of control, management, and steering are hardly applicable. Until now there is only a few research related to the question how to govern VC. The main problems to govern a VC are to coordinate the communication among dispersed partners and to motivate employees to actively involve themselves into the network. Open source projects are confronted with similar problems. As several governance mechanisms are already analyzed in this context, the authors analyze and adopt governance concepts from open source projects to extract a governance framework for virtual corporations. This new approach leads to innovative insights in governing virtual corporations by using community techniques as an appropriate way for communication and collaboration purposes. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - paper 016 KW - virtual corporation KW - governance Y1 - 2008 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1991 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19988 SN - 1867-5808 ER -