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Smart Business Networks

  • Novel approach to electronic business and value chain management

  • Practical cases combined with new theory

  • A future research direction you should not miss!

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Introduction

    1. The Actors

      Pages 13-17
    2. The Emergence of Smart Business Networks

      • Peter Vervest, Kenneth Preiss, Eric van Heck, Louis Pau
      Pages 19-30
  3. Outcomes of Smart Business Networks

    1. Spontaneous Collaborative Networks

      • Benn Konsynski, Amrit Tiwana
      Pages 75-89
    2. Smart Business Networks Enable Strategic Opportunities Not Found in Traditional Business Networking

      • Roger N. Nagel, Jason P. Walters, Greg Gurevich, Patrick D. Schmid
      Pages 127-143
    3. Smart and Sustainable Supply Chains

      • Jo A.E.E. van Nunen, Rob A. Zuidwijk, Hans M. Moonen
      Pages 159-167
  4. Execution of Smart Business Networks

    1. Marketing Translation Services Internationally: Exploiting IT to Achieve a Smart Network

      • Christopher P. Holland, Duncan R. Shaw, J.B. Westwood, Ian Harris
      Pages 171-184
    2. Node to Network: Partnerships in the Second-Hand Book Trade

      • William Golden, Martin Hughes, Helen Burke
      Pages 185-195
    3. Towards Smarter Supply and Demand Chain Collaboration Practices Enabled by RFID Technology

      • Katerina Pramatari, Georgios I. Doukidis, Panos Kourouthanassis
      Pages 197-210
    4. Building Networks In-Sync

      • Matthijs J.J. Wolters, Peter H.M. Vervest, Eric van Heck
      Pages 211-223
    5. “Off the Shelf” Smart Business Networks

      • Peter C. Muller, Gerrit Schipper
      Pages 225-237
    6. Designing Intelligent Service Supply Networks

      • Arun Rai, Jonathan Wareham, V. Sambamurthy
      Pages 239-254
  5. Governance of Smart Business Networks

    1. Embedded Coordination in a Business Network

      • Diederik W. van Liere, Lorike Hagdorn, Martijn R. Hoogeweegen, Peter H. M. Vervest
      Pages 257-271
    2. Supply and Demand Driven Coordination in Smart Business Networks

      • Otto Koppius, Eric van Heck
      Pages 273-287

About this book

Scientists from management and strategy, information systems, engineering and telecommunications have discussed a novel concept: Smart Business Networks. They see the future as a developing web of people and organizations, bound together in a dynamic and unpredictable way, creating smart outcomes from quickly (re-)configuring links between actors. The question is: What should be done to make the outcomes of such a network 'smart', that is, just a little better than that of your competitor? More agile, with less pain, with more return to all the members of the network, now and over time? The technical answer is to create a 'business operating system' that should run business processes on different organisational platforms. Business processes would become portable: The end-to-end management of processes running across many different organizations in many different forms would become possible. This book presents you the outcomes of an energizing and new direction in management science.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter Vervest, Eric Heck, Louis-François Pau

  • Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

    Kenneth Preiss

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Smart Business Networks

  • Editors: Peter Vervest, Eric Heck, Louis-François Pau, Kenneth Preiss

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b137960

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-22840-0Published: 06 September 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42150-1Published: 29 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-26694-5Published: 14 December 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 442

  • Topics: IT in Business, Information Systems and Communication Service

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Softcover Book USD 119.00
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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