It's about communication within business. The rest is technology. Long-term relationships lead to strategic partnership with extensive resource sharing.
Complex relationships generate growing information flows.
Perhaps the strongest forces for change today are found in the relationships between companies. Here, information technology can play a key role. These decisions depend on how other companies organize their activities. The dynamics of work allocation between companies are related to the development of the resources that are activated. This applies both to individual value-added operations and the coordination of these within and between companies.