It includes independent companies along the value chain form temporary alliances from among a large pool of potential partners

It consists of a large core company creates market-based linkages to a limited set of partners.

It exists within a space that is not bound by the legal and physical structures that define a conventional organization.

It resembles a kind of the form of business group in which sister companies do business with each other in market term

They are dominant in the industries where production cycle times are relatively short such as the movie, garment, and construction industries.