Smart business networks: How the network wins

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Van Heck, Eric ^a,b   Vervest, Peter ^b,c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c D Age ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS NETWORKS; DIGITAL PLATFORM; EMBEDDED LOGIC;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION MAKING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 34249895285     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1247001.1247002     Document Type: Article

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