Smart Business Network in Non-Modular Industries

Johannes Meuer ()
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Johannes Meuer: Erasmus University Rotterdam

Chapter 14 in The Network Experience, 2009, pp 211-228 from Springer

Abstract: Research on SBNs has so far overwhelmingly focused on business processes highly modular by nature. The chapter challenges the applicability of SBN concepts for the improvement of networks functioning by using the Viable Systems Model (VSM) — a model closely resembling an SBN — for the analysis of a business process characterized by a high degree of integrality. Due to the complexity of the products and the large range of separate scientific disciplines required for identifying, defining, and solving problems, the process of biopharmaceutical drug design here is identified as a suitable research field. Based on an organization-population analysis of a biopharmaceutical High Tech Park, four conditions for the application of SBN concepts are being carved out. First, network elements need clearly identifiable objectives and functions to avoid interference with other system elements. Second, the presence of single coordination devices enhances the functional capability of the network, as does a unified logic underlying its technology, norms, and language. At last, a sufficient degree of system inherent viability in the form of independence from external shocks is required. In the absence of these conditions the applicability of SBN concepts for the design improvement of networks seems rather limited.

Keywords: Business Process; Venture Capital; Tacit Knowledge; Coordination Task; Technological Regime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85582-8_14

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