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Towards Self-Organizing, Smart Business Networks: Let’s Create ‘Life’ from Inert Information
David A. Bray National Defense University - Information Resources Management College; Emory University - Department of Decision & Information Analysis Benn Konsynski Emory University - Goizueta Business School The Network Experience: New Value from Smart Business Networks, P. Vervest, D. Van Liere, and L. Zheng, eds., Springer, January 2009 Abstract: We review three different theories that can inform how researchers can 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 generally 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: information systems, evolution, ecosystems, environments, adaptedness, survivability, intelligence JEL Classifications: D23, D70, D81, D83, O31 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: October 01, 2009 ; Last revised: November 21, 2009Suggested CitationContact Information
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