ISBN: 3540228403
TITLE: Smart Business Networks
AUTHORVervest
TOC:

Preface V
Introduction
1 Welcome to Smart Business Networks 3
2 The Actors 13
3 The Emergence of Smart Business Networks 19
4 Challenges of Smart Business Networks  Five Perspectives 31
5 The Cordys Panel  Science Meets Business 49
5.1 Surfs UpAre You Ready for the Next Big Technology Wave? 49
5.2 Composite Applications and the Kaleidoscope Concept 58
5.3 Panel Discussion 65
Section 1: Outcome of Smart Business Networks
6 Spontaneous Collaborative Networks 75
7 Where Are the Smarts Located in a Smart Business Network? 91
8 Information Flow Structure in Large-Scale Product Development Organizational Networks 105
with Review Comments
9 Smart Business Networks Enable Strategic Opportunities Not Found in Traditional Business
Networking 127
with Review Comments
10 Unlocking Smart Business Networks 145
11 Smart and Sustainable Supply Chains 159
Section 2: Execution of Smart Business Networks
12 Marketing Translation Services Internationally: Exploiting IT to Achieve a Smart Network 171
with Review Comments
13 Node to Network: Partnerships in the Second-Hand Book Trade 185
with Review Comments
14 Towards Smarter Supply and Demand Chain Collaboration Practices Enabled by RFID Technology 197
15 Building Networks In-Sync 211
16 Off the Shelf Smart Business Networks 225
17 Designing Intelligent Service Supply Networks 239
with Review Comments
Section 3: Governance of Smart Business Networks
18 Embedded Coordination in a Business Network 257
19 Supply and Demand Driven Coordination in Smart Business Networks 273
20 The Viable Systems Model Applied to a Smart Network: The Case of the UK Electricity Market 289
with Review Comments
21 Governing Smart Business Networks by Means of Distributed Innovation Management 307
Section 4: Design of Smart Business Networks
22 Sharing Process Knowledge in Business Networks 323
23 How Much Business Modularity? 339
24 The Potential of Webservices to Enable Smart Business Networks 349
25 Embedding Business Logic Inside Communication Networks: Network-based Business Process Management 363
with Review Comments
26 What Is SMART about Credit Card Payments? 377
27 Smart ICT Support for Business Networks 389
28 Web Information Extraction and Mediation as a Basis for Smart Business Networking 405
29 Public Administration Networked with Business: Towards Architectures for Interoperable and Retrievable Law 421
List of Participants and Authors 435
Index 439
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