The structural embeddedness theory posits that a company’s embeddedness in a business network impacts its competitive performance. This highlights the theoretical and practical values toward business network mining and analysis. Given the fact that latent business relationships exist among companies, and these relationships continuously evolve over time, a manual approach for the discovery and ...

digital credential, trust, negotiation, E-Services marketplaces, authorization, E-Services In the present economy, business-to-business (B2B) relationships are usually long-termed and characterised by a high degree of mutual pre-existing trust. With the advent of the Internet economy, E-Services marketplaces will provide an infrastructure where B2B relationships will be set up in a highly dynam...

This paper focuses on the intersection of two important trends: 1) the growth of Internet based business-to-business electronic marketplaces that have proliferated in many different industries, largely built on hopes for large scale efficiencies in the area of transaction costs, and 2) the renewed interest on geographically defined business clusters in studies of economic growth and innovation....

This paper focuses on the intersection of two important trends: 1) the growth of Internet based business-to-business electronic marketplaces that have proliferated in many different industries, largely built on hopes for large scale efficiencies in the area of transaction costs, and 2) the renewed interest on geographically defined business clusters in studies of economic growth and innovation....

Entity relationship (ER) approach is predominantly used for conceptual modelling of database systems in terms of entities and their relationships. The approach does not provide sufficient support for incorporating business constraints and their impact on the entity relationships, thus leaving a gap between the requirements elicitation and database implementation. This paper makes an attempt to ...

Maintaining flexible business processes is a difficult task since a business process typically satisfies the needs of several stakeholders. In this paper we examine organizational flexibility and business processes from the point of view of the regulation of relationships between stakeholders. We then propose a set of high-level requirements for business process support systems for the maintena...