Rapid business changes require companies to make rapid changes in business processes and ultimately in BPS systems. These changes can be done rapidly if business modelers understand the base roles of business processes and relationships between these roles. In this paper we present an alternative to the traditional business processes modeling approaches. In our approach we make explicit roles p...

Technological devices for social networking are produced in droves and networking through media seems to be the way of getting ahead in business. We examine what role technology plays in the creation, development and maintenance of business relationships among entrepreneurs in Copenhagen. We find that mediated communication is useful in all stages of relational maintenance but only in a support...

For many years, research and management thinking has focused on understanding business relationships and networks. Now, the focus is shifting to managing business relationships and networks. This new approach focus poses two questions. Since networks are loosely coupled systems, to what extent are business networks manageable? Furthermore, how can a firm’s ability to manage a network be charact...

The term business ecosystem was originally established more than 20 years ago. In the seminal article ''Predators and prey: a new ecology of competition'' [1], Moore proposes an ecological approach to explain the co-evolution of companies within a business ecosystem by adopting a complex interplay of cooperative and competitive strategies. According to Moore, business ecosystems evolve in four ...