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The network experience : new value from smart business networks

Peter H. M. Vervest (Editor), Diederik W. van Liere (Editor), Zheng (Editor)
Digital networking technologies are empowering organizations to form dynamic networks, generating exceptional or ‘smart’ results.
eBook, English, ©2009
Springer, Berlin, ©2009
Conference papers and proceedings
1 online resource (xiii, 370 p.) : illustrations
9783540855828, 9783540855804, 3540855823, 3540855807
503045274
Setting the Scene.- The Network Experience — New Value from Smart Business Networks.- The Network Factor — How to Remain Competitive.- Process Management in Business Networks.- Next Generation Agility: Smart Business and Smart Communities.- The Actors.- Network Essentials.- Business Process Management in a Smart Business Network Environment.- Towards Self-Organizing Smart Business Networks — Let's Create “Life” from Inert Information.- Strategy, Networks and Systems in the Global Translation Services Market.- Business Value Network Concepts for the Extended Enterprise.- Networks in Action.- Connectivity and Competition in Airline Networks.- Fighting SARS with a Hastily Formed Network.- Smart Business Networks with Chinese Characteristics.- Innovation, Competences and the Role of Knowledge Networks in Hangzhou's Software Industry.- Smart Business Network in Non-Modular Industries.- Network Enablers.- Flexible Decision Support in a DynamicBusiness Network.- Key Success Factors for ICT-System Implementation in SME's.- The Quick-Connect Capability and Its Antecedents.- The Adoption of Grid Technology and Its Perceived Impact on Agility.- Network Orchestration.- Why Smart Business Networks Continue and Develop: A Structural and Processual Model of Value Flows.- Orchestrating Smart Business Networks.- Electronic Intermediaries in Smart Business Networks.- Shared Visions in Smart Business Networks.