Enterprise Architecture Cybernetics for Global Mining Projects: Reducing the Structural Complexity of Global Mining Supply Networks via Virtual Brokerage

Abstract:

This paper applies the emerging paradigm of Collaborative Networks (CNs) to the global mining supply chains (introducing the new concept of ‘global mining supply networks’) and demonstrates that the efficiency of the global mining projects initiated and managed by the global mining supply networks can be limited by the complexity of the supply network itself. This paper then presents methods and theoretical examples to calculate and reduce the structural complexity of the global mining supply networks and the complexity of creation of the global mining projects through applying the virtual brokerages to the global mining supply networks.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 634-638)
• Pages: 3339-3345
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.634-638.3339
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Hadi Kandjani, Lian Wen, Peter Bernus
• Keywords: Enterprise Architecture Cybernetics, Extended Axiomatic Design Theory, Global Mining Projects, Global Mining Supply Networks, Structural Complexity, Virtual Brokerage

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