NETWORK ENTERPRISES - MODERN ORGANIZATION SOLUTION FOR ENTERPRISES IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT

Due to the present environment complexity, characterized by internationalization and globalization, the enterprises need to identify new mechanisms to facilitate their access at new markets and resources. In this way, the network enterprises have been born, working based on their reaction to the market regulation mechanism and not on hierarchical received orders. Network enterprises are new organization forms appropriate for a continuously changing environment, allowing maximum action freedom. They do not have stability in time and a precise configuration as well. The aim of this paper is to show the complexity of the enterprises network concept, to identify their resources and to exemplify certain network types from two opposite cultures, Japanese and American. In Japan keiretsu networks are being distinguished and present in multiple activity fields. In the USA network enterprises are being organized in various forms, from divisions to matrix or some other types.