Value creation in a virtual network organisation

Global competition and rapid changes in industry structure are encouraging organisations to address needs for flexibility and real-time value creation and delivery (Achrol, 1997; Eggert and Ulaga, 2002). The objective of this paper is to develop a framework to guide the real-time creation and delivery of customer value in a virtual network organisation in the business-tobusiness sector (B2B). The proposed theoretical framework explains how superior customer value can be generated through the application of an Intelligent-Agent System (IAS) in which agents simultaneously represent customer focus, customer orientation and market orientation.