This work examines the importance of interorganizational supply chain relationship from a network perspective. We have tried to find the answer of the following questions; how does knowledge sharing effect network value in an inter-organizational business network? What is the influence of knowledge sharing in creating new knowledge? This paper makes a significant and substantial contribution to...

The deployment of Next Generation Networks (NGN) able to provide high speed connectivity to citizens and businesses has been characterized as one of the key elements for social development. The NGN infrastructures allow the provision of new innovative electronic communication services with ultra high capacity requirements. On the other hand the deployment of new network infrastructure in rural ...

Dynamic capabilities and innovative orientation are crucial for entrepreneurs achieving success in turbulent environments. Increasing number of women numerous obstacles face by them enhance the necessity studying how utilize dynamic business This study is a qualitative inquiry successful woman entrepreneur Western Province Sri Lanka utilized narrative analysis allowing to share experiences thro...

Collaborative product design is nowadays a trend of advanced manufacturing technology. Collaborative product design is a knowledge-intensive activity; knowledge management in collaborative product design has been focused. Existing literatues maily focus on knowledge management systems in collaborative design, other aspects of design activity is rarely paid attention to. The framework of activit...

Sharing Economy businesses have become very popular recently but there is little guidance available on how to develop the respective business models. We faced this problem during a consortium research project for developing a service for electric vehicle charging that adopts the paradigm of Peer-to-Peer Sharing and Collaborative Consumption (P2P SCC)—a specific branch of the Sharing Economy. We...

This paper mainly addresses the integration of engineering processes of enterprises performing collaborative product development in the form of virtual enterprise. The virtual enterprise support system with three-tier architecture is proposed first. The workflow process modelling and execution services are located in the business tier as service components. The implementation of information int...

INTRODUCTION Under the Massachusetts health reform, low income residents (those with incomes below 150 % of the Federal Poverty Level [FPL]) were eligible for Medicaid and health insurance exchange-based plans with minimal cost-sharing and no premiums. Those with slightly higher incomes (150 %-300 % FPL) were eligible for exchange-based plans that required cost-sharing and premium payments. M...

Collaborative logistics is becoming more important in today’s industry. This is driven by increased environmental concerns, improved efficiency through collaborative planning supporting resources sharing and new business models implementation. This paper explores collaborative logistics and reports on business applications within the forest products industry in Sweden and Canada. It first descr...

Today’s networked business environment requires systems which are adaptive and easy to integrate. Event-based systems have been developed and used to control business processes with loosely coupled systems. Research and product development focused so far on efficiency issues, but neglected simulation support to build robust and efficient event-driven applications. In this paper, we propose a si...