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The Network Experience

New Value from Smart Business Networks

  • A managerial perspective on what managers must do to generate smart business results from using networking technologies; and the resultant academic research challenges

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Setting the Scene

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Network Factor — How to Remain Competitive

      • Peter H. M. Vervest, Diederik W. van Liere, Al Dunn
      Pages 15-35
    3. Next Generation Agility: Smart Business and Smart Communities

      • Steven L. Goldman, Roger N. Nagel, Brian D. Davison, Patrick D. Schmid
      Pages 49-55
    4. The Actors

      Pages 57-64
  3. Network Essentials

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 66-68
    2. Strategy, Networks and Systems in the Global Translation Services Market

      • Duncan R. Shaw, Christopher P. Holland
      Pages 99-118
    3. Business Value Network Concepts for the Extended Enterprise

      • Kelly Bowles Lyman, Nathan Caswell, Alain Biem
      Pages 119-136
  4. Networks in Action

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 138-140
    2. Connectivity and Competition in Airline Networks

      • Aura Reggiani, Peter Nijkamp, Alessandro Cento
      Pages 141-163
    3. Fighting SARS with a Hastily Formed Network

      • Peter J. van Baalen, Paul C. van Fenema
      Pages 165-178
    4. Smart Business Networks with Chinese Characteristics

      • Barbara Krug, Hans Hendrischke
      Pages 179-192
  5. Network Enablers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 230-232
    2. Flexible Decision Support in a DynamicBusiness Network

      • John Collins, Wolfgang Ketter, Maria Gini
      Pages 233-248

About this book

Digital networking technologies are empowering organizations to form dynamic networks, generating exceptional or ‘smart’ results. These Smart Business Networks (SBNs) enable individual organizations to compete more effectively and to respond better to a changing world.  This idea attracted a diverse group of academic scholars and business professionals to Beijing from May 19-23, 2008, hosted by Tsinghua University. They discovered new ways to manage network resources, operate business processes across a network, create a business operations platform, understand the importance of network position and the smart mastering of technology.  Effective managers, they concluded, must have a firm understanding of these fundamental network concepts in order to orchestrate the networks of the future. This book presents the results of an intense and energizing event which resulted in new theoretical foundations and practical insights.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter H. M. Vervest, Diederik W. Liere

  • Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Li Zheng

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Network Experience

  • Book Subtitle: New Value from Smart Business Networks

  • Authors: Peter H. M. Vervest, Diederik W. Liere, Li Zheng

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85582-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85580-4Published: 25 September 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09920-5Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-85582-8Published: 14 October 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 370

  • Topics: Organization, IT in Business

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