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Scientistsfrom management and strategy, information systems, engineering and telecommunicationshave 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. Thequestion 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

Unternehmensnetzwerke sind ein wirtschaftlich relevantes Phänomen, dessen praktische Bedeutung in Europa weiter zunimmt. Dieser Forschungsband untersucht Unternehmensnetzwerke aus einer interdisziplinären Perspektive. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf den kooperativen (nicht hierarchischen) Netzwerken. Speziell für diese Netzwerke werden neue ökonomische Erkenntnisse vorgestellt, eine Definition vorgeschlagen und sinnvolle Governance-Strukturen näher beleuchtet. Zugleich wird die Übertragbarkeit der Ergebnisse für diese Netzwerke auf andere (zentralisierte) Unternehmensnetzwerke untersucht. Drei Beiträge widmen sich den kartellrechtlichen Problemen, die Unternehmensnetzwerke hervorrufen. Aufsätze zur Haftung von Netzwerken und ihrer Mitglieder gegenüber Dritten und Beiträge zu Treuepflichten und der Auslegung von Vereinbarungen innerhalb von Netzwerken runden das Bild ab. Die Beiträge aus Italien, Spanien, Deutschland und Norwegen zeigen die Übereinstimmungen, aber auch die Unterschiede der juristischen Perspektive auf Unternehmensnetzwerke in Europa

The author argues that the unidirectional measurement and evaluation of the dependence in a specific relationship is not enough to understand the existing dependence between two actors in a dyadic relationship, but a bi‐directional approach may be necessary. Furthermore, a bi‐directional approach may not always be sufficient to understand the dependencies in a specific relationship. The incorporation of a third actor may improve the understanding of dependencies in dyadic business relationships. Therefore, a method is applied to analyze the dynamics of dependence in triadic business networks.

This article deals with the temporality in business networks. Marketing as networks approach stresses interaction processes and interdependence among actors noting that business markets are mainly socially constructed. The approach has increased our understanding of business marketing but further attention for theory development and empirical validation is needed. Theoretical foundations of the approach are conceptually analysed here, taking time and timing into particular consideration. A model of event networks is developed as an approach to understand temporality in business networks. The event network perspective is exemplified using practical cases. It is argued that extensions of network theory, methods and models can be approached using connected events as a base.