Virtual corporations in transport

Telematics / EDI reduces the impact of time and place on business processes. This has consequences for the relevance of organisational boundaries, the business process and for the working-organisation as well, since this leads to ad hoc policy following every incoming order. New competitive advantages are enabled by this new business-process. Because of the increasing importance of telematic linkages between organisations in logistic chains, emerging of organisations playing a role in linking organisations by telematics, so called virtual organisations, seems to be obvious in transport, where transport links organisations. This paper first describes the virtual organisation phenomena, based on literature-study. Secondly, assumptions are made on the impact of virtual organisations in the transport sector, in order to regenerate more specific research questions.