The Evolution of Small and Medium Enterprise in Digital Business Ecosystem; Accelerating The Evolution and The Need for Web 2.0 and Visualization

Salam, Maher; Steenkamp, Annette Lerine; Khoury, Fadi

doi:10.1109/ictta.2008.4529983

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“…There are many small businesses that do possess a significant level of expertise, and not only those that operate in high technology sectors such as web developers, software development, and other computer-related industries. Although as Santos et al (2008) point out, small businesses often lack the expertise to create a structured approach to adoption decisions creating a barrier to Web 2.0 investment.…”

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“…Technically, at least, this should be easily done through use of some of the many inexpensive Web 2.0 tools that are available. These can facilitate collaborative working both within business organizations (Raman, 2006;Wagner, 2006), between business organizations (Salam et al, 2008) and as a means of getting closer to suppliers and customers (Helms et al, 2008).…”

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Web 2.0 and micro‐businesses: an exploratory investigation

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Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

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Purpose: The paper reports from an exploratory study into how small businesses use Web 2.0 information and communication technologies (ICT) to work collaboratively with other small businesses. The study had two aims: to investigate the benefits available from the use of Web 2.0 in small business collaborations, and to characterize the different types of such online collaborations. Design/methodology/approach: The research uses a qualitative case study methodology based on semi-structured interviews with the owner-managers of twelve UK-based small companies in the business services sector, who are early adopters of Web 2.0 technologies. Findings: Benefits from the use of Web 2.0 are categorised as lifestyle benefits, internal operational efficiency, enhanced capability, external communications and enhanced service offerings. A 2x2 framework is developed to categorise small business collaborations using the dimensions of the basis for inter-organizational collaboration (control vs. cooperation) and the level of Web 2.0 ICT use (simple vs. sophisticated). Research limitations/implications:A small number of firms of similar size, sector and location were studied, which limits generalisability. Nonetheless, the results offer a pointer to the likely future use of Web 2.0 tools by other small businesses. Practical implications:The research provides evidence of the attraction and potential of Web 2.0 for collaborations between small businesses. Originality/value: The paper is one of the first to report on use of Web 2.0 ICT in collaborative working between small businesses. It will be of interest to those seeking a better understanding of the potential of Web 2.0 in the small business community.

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Web 2.0 and micro‐businesses: an exploratory investigation

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Dyerson

et al. 2012

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

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“…In this model, each business service is modeled as self-replicating agents that can reproduce, vary, interact, move, and die. Furthermore, Salam et al introduced a service maturity model with five maturity levels and four interfaces [30] to suggest a stage-based evolution of digital business ecosystem. The service with higher maturity can collaborate with services in different habitat.…”

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“…Furthermore, Salam et al . introduced a service maturity model with five maturity levels and four interfaces to suggest a stage‐based evolution of digital business ecosystem. The service with higher maturity can collaborate with services in different habitat.…”

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BSNet: a network‐based framework for service‐oriented business ecosystem management

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Fan

Tan³

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Concurrency and Computation

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SUMMARYAs enterprises turning to SOA, services-oriented business ecosystem (SOBE) has become an important pattern for the organization and management of the massive business services. At the same time, the emergence of Internet of Services (IOS) provides a business model in which service vendors and consumers can interact with each other via the Internet. This paradigm makes it possible that the services in SOBE are managed in an autonomous and coordinated manner. The challenge here is to organize these massive business services, coordinate, and federate them to achieve the benefits of SOA. To address these challenges, this paper presents BSNet, a framework on the basis of the service correlation networks to manage the SOBE. The model consists of a who-what-how service correlation network that captures the various relations in SOBE. Finally, a prototype system is developed, and a simulated case study is provided to show the expanded value of our network-based framework.

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“…Mirva Peltoniemil and Elisa Vuori [14] analyze the competition, collaboration and self-organization in a business ecosystem. Macher Salam [15] et al introduced a five-layer service maturity model to suggest a stage based evolution of digital business ecosystem. Wang et al [16] presented a geography-based coupled network model to describe the evolutionary of the digital business ecosystem.…”

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BSNet: A Three-Layer Business Service Correlation Network Model

Huang

Fan

Tan

2011

2011 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing

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With the advancement of enterprise information system, services-oriented business ecosystem (SOBE) has became an important pattern for the organization and management of the massive business services. At the same time, Internet of Service (IOS) provides a business model in which service vendors and consumers can interactive with each other via the Internet. This paradigm makes it possible that services in SOBE be managed in an autonomous and coordinated manner. The challenge here is to really coordinate the distributed services and federate them to achieve the benefits of SOA. To address these shortcomings, this paper presents "BSNet", a formal model of the SOBE. The model consists of a three-layer business service correlation network which describes the relationships in SOBE. In fact, it is a "who-whathow" correlation network construction of SOBE. Furthermore the expanded value of this model to business service management is shown. Finally, a simulation-base case study using BSNet to organize and manage SOBE is presented.

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The Evolution of Small and Medium Enterprise in Digital Business Ecosystem; Accelerating The Evolution and The Need for Web 2.0 and Visualization

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Web 2.0 and micro‐businesses: an exploratory investigation

Web 2.0 and micro‐businesses: an exploratory investigation

BSNet: a network‐based framework for service‐oriented business ecosystem management

BSNet: A Three-Layer Business Service Correlation Network Model

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