Authors:
Marco Remondino
;
Marco Pironti
and
Paola Pisano
Affiliation:
e-Business L@B, University of Turin, Italy
Keyword(s):
Process Innovation, Network Topology, Business Process, Agent Based Simulation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Business and Social Applications
;
Collaborative Business Systems
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Enterprise Software Technologies
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Virtual Organizations
Abstract:
A business process is a set of logically related tasks performed to achieve a defined business and related to improving organizational processes. A process innovation can happen at various levels: incremental way, redesign of existing processes, totally new processes. The knowledge behind a process innovation can be shared, acquired, changed and increased by the enterprises inside a network. An enterprise can decide to exploit the innovative process it owns, thus potentially gaining competitive advantage, but risking, in turn, that other players could reach the same technological level. Or it could decide to share it, in exchange for other competencies or money. These activities could be the basis for a network formation and/or impact the topology of an existing network, by changing the number and topology of ties and links. In the present work an agent based model is introduced (E³), that aims to explore how a process innovation can facilitate network formation of existing enterpris
es, affect the network topology (e.g.: an enterprise owning an innovative process could become a focal point), induce new players to enter the market and spread onto the network by being shared or internally acquired by new players.
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