Towards Self-Organizing Smart Business Networks — Let's Create “Life” from Inert Information

David A. Bray () and Benn R. Konsynski ()
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David A. Bray: Emory University
Benn R. Konsynski: Emory University

Chapter 7 in The Network Experience, 2009, pp 83-97 from Springer

Abstract: In this chapter, we review three different theories that can inform how researchers determine the performance of smart business networks, to include: (1) the Theory of Evolution, (2) the Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm, and (3) research insights into computers and cognition. We suggest that each of these theories demonstrate that to be perceived as smart, an organism needs to be self-organizing, communicative, and tool-making. Consequentially, to determine the performance of a smart business network, we suggest that researchers need to determine the degree to which it is self-organizing, communicative, and tool-making. We then relate these findings to the Internet and the idea of smart business networks.

Keywords: Virtual World; Environmental Pressure; Hermit Crab; Social Dilemma; Information Element (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85582-8_7

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