The article highlights the importance of a reflection about the impacts and possibilities that the concepts related to virtual organisations may bring to the interorganisational coordination in the governmental planning. Such interorganisational coordination may contribute to improve the effectiveness of the governmental action, by means of a cooperative informational environment. Aspects like, cooperative information management, organisational culture, power and control, boundaries and organizational structures, as well as trust must be object of attention, in case one wants to evolve towards applying the concept of virtual organizations to the public sector.
Governmental planning; Interoganisational coordination; Information management