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J Intell Manuf (2010) 21:301–309 DOI 10.1007/s10845-008-0181-6 A multi-criteria model for the evaluation of business benefits in horizontal collaborative networks Naoufel Cheikhrouhou · Grégory Piot · Michel Pouly Received: 2 September 2008 / Accepted: 2 September 2008 / Published online: 9 November 2008 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2008 Abstract Despite many advantages that could be gained tration as the main objectives of joining a network (Gruber through belonging to enterprise networks, only a few net- et al. 2005; Warner and Witzel 2004). Many of those com- works continue running businesses after the governments panies that have joined or built a network with the help of stop their funding. One of the reasons is the lack of a model governmental funding did not continue the experience after that evaluates the benefits from the firm’s point of view. The that the local governments stopped their financial help. This objective of this work is to develop a model that estimates may be related to the lack of knowledge about the tools and the benefits in horizontal collaborative networks, for a con- methods that could have helped the companies in estimating sidered business opportunity, and determines the optimal net- their business profits and costs when deciding to join a net- work configuration in terms of the selected enterprises. We work. Some research work has been carried out to identify propose a method for evaluating the profits for a collaborative the advantages of taking part of virtual enterprises and col- network based on a combination of product realisation graph laborative networks (Chituc and Nof 2007; Varamäki 2005; and core competences identification. Through the case study Gomes-Casseres 2003), focusing more on the performance of a Swiss horizontal collaborative ne