Fading Boundaries : The Emergence of Collaborative Architectures

This article outlined future challenges for organizations and their problembased
responses. Changing business landscapes urge organizations to develop
new business logics for the sake of increased survivability. Individual
organizations are bound by restricted resource pools, and hence, open up
for collaborative approaches. Undoubtedly, organizations morph towards
collaborative value generation architectures with a diverse and interconnected
set of actors and increasingly permeable boundaries.
This process is forcefully driven by attempts to limit opportunism, access
«distant» resources and capabilities and redefine power constellations to
reduce dependencies or recreate identities. Moreover, firms strive to decompose
increasing complexity through involvement of a larger set of actors.