Editing Virtual organization (section)

===1990s ===

The terms virtual organization, [[virtual enterprise]] or [[virtual corporation]] were first utilized in the early 1990s as demonstrate the work of Jan Hopland, Roger N. Nagel, [[William H. Davidow]] and Malone.<ref>[https://archive.today/20141017023323/http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1993-02-07/the-futurists-who-fathered-the-ideas] BusinessWeek Archives, 1993. The Futurists Who Fathered The Ideas. [online] Available at: <http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1993-02-07/the-futurists-who-fathered-the-ideas> [Accessed 15 October 2014]</ref> The table below allows us to understand more specifically their faintly distinctive theories:

 {| class="wikitable alternance centre"
 |+ Virtual organizations' views
 |-
 |
 ! scope="col" | Jan Hopland
 ! scope="col" | Roger N. Nagel
 ! scope="col" | William H. Davidow and Malone
 |-
 ! scope="row" | Position
 | Digital Equipment Corp. executive
 | Management expert
 | Authors of The Virtual Corporation
 |-
 ! scope="row" | Virtual organization’s depiction
 | A company that knows how to utilise partnerships both inside and outside its boundaries in order to mobilise more assets than it presently has on its own
 | Take advantage of market openings thanks to technology which allow enterprises to form temporary partnerships 
 | A broad and catch-all term comprising numerous management ideas and trendy terms
 |-
 |}